Re: [Axiom-developer] gclweb.lisp

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> > I know that you want to do everything in LISP, but there are
> > LaTeX-only solutions already around.

> > http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/tpf/html/LitProg.html
>
> I'm sure there are a variety of solutions available, and in theory any
> system capable of supporting the syntax we use can be applied.  Doing
> it in lisp will (hopefully) allow deep integration of pamphlet handling
> into Axiom.
>
> > I haven't evaluated how good that is and whether is as powerful as 
> > noweb. I also don't like the syntax and output, but it would be a way
> > to avoid LISP. ;-)

> You are suggesting having both the latex processing and the tangle
> operation performed by TeX code?  Eeek.

Hmm, the whole LaTeX3 project uses that approach. But I would say, the 
tangle (docstrip) is quite weak.

> Actually removing the dependency on LaTeX is not theoretically
> impossible and is a direction I find interesting.

OK, so why does nobody think of TeXmacs? That is a Wysiwyg-editor 
written in Scheme (as far as I know). One can already embed interactive 
code. Despite all dislikings ... isn't TeXmacs quite appropriate not 
only as an interface to Axiom but also as the way do write literate 
programs for Axiom? I don't know why I am suggesting this, I am not even 
using TeXmacs and always run into problems with it, but in some way I 
feel that it would be an appropriate tool for the pamphlets.

There is just one problem. As far as I can tell, there is no support for 
literate programs in TeXmacs. But isn't Lisp similar to Scheme and 
aren't you just writing a clweb?

Unfortunately, I cannot look into it since I LISP is not the language 
that I speak very fluently.

Is there someone who is interested and can look into evaluating TeXmacs 
for Axiom? Maybe we should ask someone on the TeXmacs list to give us 
some motivation to follow this direction.

Ralf