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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Dear Sam,

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 05:34:03PM +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> I've done some more work on my fangle literate programming
> (http://www.nongnu.org/fangle/)
> 
> I've completed the first TeXmacs part of the getting started guide
> at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/fangle.git/tree/docs/getting-started.pdf
> which leads through production of this document 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/fangle.git/tree/docs/examples/hello-world.pdf
> 
> I would appreciate it very much if those who find these two PDF
> interesting would try it out.
> 
> A fuller version of hello-world is available that explains the
> features from the readers point of view instead of the authors:
> http://www.nongnu.org/fangle/examples/hello-world.pdf
> 
> Fangle works well with TeXmacs and I use it every day for writing
> and documenting software.
> 
> There's still some features crippled by notable bugs, such as
> inability to properly include commas in parameters (it's supposed to
> work) and the fact that including a text chunk in a #-marked comment
> doesn't prefix all lines with # (it's supposed to work, along with $
> quoting for text included in makefiles and so on).

Thanks for posting your work, which looks promising,
despite a few problems with the macros on my system.

You should try to encapsulate your work in a plug-in,
with keyboard shortcuts, menus, and in which the nf-chunk
can be added to the enumerate tags during the initialization
(even better would be to add the line numbers automatically,
of course). I also miss a menu item or keyboard shortcut
for generating the target files from within TeXmacs.

Notice that plug-ins can document themselves from version 1.0.7.12 on.

Best, --Joris