I'm sort of thinking along the lines of Haskell's version of literate programming, where if you use the file suffix of lhs instead of hs, rather than having a file that is mostly code with occasional comments, you can easily write a document that is mostly text with occasional code. In that mode, by default, a line is treated as text unless it has a > at the beginning of the line to indicate it is code.
I was under the impression that with Scribble, I could do something similar (mostly text, but with occasional code blocks), but would have the additional benefits of Scribble's mark-up capabilities. I see now that that's not precisely how Scribble is intended to be used. I'm interested because I've asked a student to turn a program into a highly readable document, and I want to give her some simple options. I thought this would be the perfect way to have a runnable program, but also be able to generate a great-looking html page. scribble/lp is related, but more involved to use. Specifically, I just tried it and it doesn't seem to work with the scribble html button that appears in DrRacket. I keep getting the following error: scribble: loading xref scribble: rendering reference to an identifier before its definition: doc Maybe it only works via lp-include? On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote: > What you're asking for is not what Scribble does, mostly speaking. > Running a scribble program just builds a datastructure for the > rendering process. > > You might try the scribble/lp library, tho. I think that comes closest. > > Robby > >
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