With help I got the noweb interface running, but what I have does not seem worth using.
Lyx now sports the 3 promised doc styles and if article(noweb) is used then lyx will offer to export to noweb, or ascii custom... I appear to have lost the ability to generate .ps, .dvi, .html etc. The noweb package says it can generate latex and html - but the html it produces is hopeless, and it does not come with the l2h filter its man page advises of. Lyx can re-ingest the .nw file it can export - but that seems to be about it. The noweb notangle command will collect the bits of embedded scrap code - but I could do much the same with a perl script ol 'Lyx code' segments, without loosing the other lyx facilities. For scilab maths such as I am currently doing I usually do the thinking and write up in a .lyx file and then generate the code using gvim. I had hoped to integrate these stages and end up with integrated documentation, but these tools do not seem to cut the mustard. I loose syntax highliting, paranthesis match, smart indent, name completion etc. etc. from the gvim side, and ease and quality of maths and graphics doc output from the lyx side, and gain extra hassle, for no obvious advantage. nountangle defaults to outputting C style comments - it will do a few others - but does not offer C++ style used by scilab and (and available to C++) There really should be advantage in integrating the maths and pictures and general layout facilities of lyx and the code editing facilities of gvim (or etc) and supporting the creation of good integrated documentation. This noweb stuff seems at this point a poor tool. Perhaps with a good knowledge of the tools it may be possible to coax it into some form of useful life - but I've got work I need to get done.
