Exporting examples for use in other applications

>>>>> "Leo" == Leo Butler <l_butler at users.sourceforge.net> writes:

    Leo> Neuwirth Erich <erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at> writes:
    >> org-mode for Emacs can embed maxima code in documents.

    Leo> You can embed Maxima, or BC, or what-have-you in LaTeX--all that is
    Leo> needed is file i/o and the \write18 system command. Here is a near
    Leo> minimal working example of how to do this (the \exec macro in
    Leo> exec.tex). I use a more elaborate version to write my beamer lecture
    Leo> slides, course assignments and so on.

That's interesting.  I didn't know you could do that.

    Leo> My point is that if there were a typesetter written in lisp, we could

A long time ago, I vaguely remember someone trying to reimplement TeX in
lisp.  I don't know what happened to that project though.

Ray