[plt-scheme] Semi-literate programming with scribble

Hi Jakub,

Have you encountered scribble/lp yet?

Best,
Jordan


On Apr 25, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Jakub Piotr Cłapa <jpc-ml at zenburn.net>  
wrote:

> I came accross some nice semi-literate programming tools for  
> CoffeScript (an alternative JavaScript syntax) and Ruby [1,2] which  
> I believe to be inspired by Code Illumination [3] made for the  
> Mozilla Ubiquity project.
>
> I was thinking how to reproduce something like that in Scheme using  
> Scribble. I would like to support at least Scheme and C. Maybe shell  
> scripting and Python too. (so AFAIU I cannot just use at-exp and  
> macros)
>
> I am not sure how to make it all tick:
> 1. How to split the code/docs?
>
> I think the best way would be to do some light regexp based text  
> preprocessing to split out the commented blocks and wrap every block  
> in an @-form before passing the result to the scribble reader.
>
> 2. How to process the files?
>
> I guess I should read the source for scribble/text and/or scribble/ 
> manual but last time I tried it was quite difficult to understand  
> how all the parts fit together. Are there better places to learn  
> about how to make such a tool?
>
> I only started playing with Scribble so I would love to hear what  
> someone wiser think about this idea.
>
> Thanks for taking time to read this.
>
> [1]: http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/
> [2]: http://rtomayko.github.com/rocco/
> [3]: http://www.toolness.com/wp/?p=441
> https://ubiquity.mozilla.com/hg/ubiquity-firefox/raw-file/347c22717e86/ubiquity/index.html#feed-parts/header/cmdutils.js
>
> -- 
> regards,
> Jakub Piotr Cłapa
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