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Re: OT: DocBook and Literate Programming?
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: OT: DocBook and Literate Programming?
- From: Kevin Conder <kconder at interaccess dot com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:51:51 -0500 (CDT)
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On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Jeff Duska wrote:
> I know that this topic is some times called Literate Programming. With the
> power of DocBook it seems like this might be a match made in heaven. My
> deliverables need to be HTML, PDF, RTF and, of course, the VB source code.
> It would be nice, if I could some how keep everything together and in sync.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
Literate programming and TeX are usually associated together. I
think it's because of Mr. Knuth and his computer math textbooks. TeX
can do the transforms into the formats that you were talking about.
Check out the Literate Programming FAQ:
http://www.doclib.org/Linux/devel/literate/hweb-0.1/hweb/faq/faq-8.html
I had to delve into TeX when I was having problems with my DocBook
tool-chain. It was not very easy to understand. BTW: Did you try JavaDoc
when you were working with Java? I think it also does what you want.
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