<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>Linuxdoc Reference: Literate Programming</TITLE> <LINK HREF="Linuxdoc-Reference-13.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="Linuxdoc-Reference-11.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="Linuxdoc-Reference.html#toc12" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="Linuxdoc-Reference-13.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Linuxdoc-Reference-11.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Linuxdoc-Reference.html#toc12">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="litprog"></A> <A NAME="s12">12. Literate Programming</A></H2> <P> <HR> <PRE> <!entity % litprog " code | verb " > </PRE> <HR> This one is a funny thing. It's the idea of not to write some comment text within a program, and might be to take later some special tools, to extract the text <BLOCKQUOTE>Think of <CODE>perlpod</CODE>.</BLOCKQUOTE> , but to write a big document and later to extract the code from it. <BLOCKQUOTE>People who don't like to document their code will not appreciate.</BLOCKQUOTE> The principle is: All text within <CODE>verb</CODE> and <CODE>code</CODE> tags, will be gathered into a sourcefile. <P> <P>That's it, because for now I don't remember the name of the tool doing thatone. <P> <P> <HR> <A HREF="Linuxdoc-Reference-13.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Linuxdoc-Reference-11.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Linuxdoc-Reference.html#toc12">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>
