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