conventions for .texi files



James Amundson  writes:

> On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 15:57, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
>> James Amundson пишет:
>
>> >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.
>> >
>> Yes, but I wonder what is a proper tool for writing such a filter?
>> awk?
>
> I'd really rather not deal with awk. We already rely (slightly) on perl
> for texi2html, so I think perl would be the logical choice. I generally
> dislike perl, but the filter would be a fairly trivial script so I don't
> think it matters much.

Another possibility would be something like batTeX.  I would guess
(without having looked at it) that Barton Willis's batTeX could be
easily adapted for this purpose.

Jay