On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 12:55, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
> Jay Belanger writes:
>
> >"Vadim V. Zhytnikov" writes:
> >...
> >
> >>Imput example code is stored in texinfo's comment
> >>
> >>@c ######
> >>@c expand((x+y)^2);
> >>@c factor(%);
> >>@c ######
> >>
> >>Here @c ###### marks beginning and end of the example .
> >>Pressing some magic keys makes emacs runs this code through
> >>Maxima twice - once with plain text output and next time with
> >>LaTeX output. Results are inserted into the document with
> >>appropriate ifs.
> >>
> >>Ah, I'm just day dreaming ...
> >>
> >
> >I don't see why that would be so hard, if there were a demand for it.
> >It could be done in Emacs, or have another program filter the texi
> >file.
> >
> >Jay
> >
> >
> Now recreating examples in Maxima .texi file is slow and tedious
> process. I've been thinking about creating repository of examples
> to facilitate further recreation (if required). But keeping all examples
> in one file is very useful.
I think writing a small filter program to re-generate example code would
be very worthwhile. I would much rather see something that can be run
from the command line than something that requires loading the files
into emacs.
--Jim