[racket-dev] conditional scribble documents
I'm working on building a Scribble extension that lets me write
conditional bits of Scribble code.
Some use cases: 1. writing a document that can be author-anonymized
2. tutorial material, with solutions to be generated in the document
targetted for teachers.
I do not want to hide or show content with styles: it's too easy to do
"View Source" on an HTML document. I really do want conditional
generation.
Unlike cond-element, the branch should not be tied to the output
format, but rather to some external parameterization.
However, I don't see a clean way of introducing the parameterization
when Scribble is being executed. I could hack with the '++xref' flag
so that the module/function I name there will be a no-op in terms of
returning xrefs, but will as a side-effect set up the parameters I
need. But that makes me feel extremely dirty.
I do want to be able to say something like:
scribble ... ++load my-module.rkt ...
where my-module.rkt will add the parameterizations I need to generate
conditional content, but of course there's no such thing as "++load"
yet.
Suggestions? Thanks!