[om-list] scribble

OneModel general list om-list at onemodel.org
Sat Apr 23 18:22:43 EDT 2016


Scribble is a programming language.  It's really made out of Racket, a 
dialect of Scheme, but its syntax has been changed so that it looks 
like a markup language.  The various mmarkup commands are all functions 
in Racket, and you can use arbitrary Racket expressions in the middle 
of your text if you so choose.  They are executed when scribble 
converts your text to html or pdf or whatever.

In other words, it isn't basiclly a text notatiion.  At its foundatin 
os a full-functino programming language.  And it just happens to be 
good at presentng text.

See http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/ for details.

I was wondering whether something like this would also be appropriate 
for your project -- a complete synthess between text and executable 
content.  A different one, of course, wne even more far-reaching.

-- hendrik



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