I think Scrap comes from nuweb (which I used to use for some time as well):
http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/nuweb.html On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Gregor Gorjanc <gregor.gorj...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 >
