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"Martin Spernau" <martin@traumwind.de> wrote:
> Asko Kauppi wrote:
> > Has anyone tried to do Lua code in .rtf?
> >
> > That is, a reader (chunk loader, whatever) that reads in not .lua (raw
> > ansi text) but a document that can have *bold*, /italics,
> > /_underlinings_, even pictures.
> >
> > I had this idea about 10 years back, using Borland C++. Why couldn't
> > source have commenting pictures etc. attached right there. But it
> > doesn't. Not even in 2003. :)
> >
> > -ak
>
> I think what you are suggesting exists in a way already. It's called
> 'literate programming'. Search for 'knuth tangle weave web' in your
> favorite search engine...
>
> Now doing something like this for Lua... hmmm

The Monday project (http://monday.sourceforge.net/) uses a literate
programming tool partially written in Lua, and is itself written as a
literate program.  See
http://monday.sourceforge.net/tools/build/mmk-project.html and
http://monday.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/MondayStatus for the details.

-Peter-