Hi,

On 25 October 2012 06:33, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote:

> Gregor may know the history of "Scrap"; that term has been there ever
> since I started using LyX/Sweave, and I never know how it came in.
>
> Noweb is only one of the implementations of literate programming (to
> beat Knuth's WEB), so I guess "literate" may actually be a better
> name.


I was also surprised  by these terms when I first looked into the code. I
think I read somewhere that Kayvaan took these terms after some other
"noweb" system. I believe this is described somewhere in the lyx doc/devel
files.

gg

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