[Axiom-developer] noweb

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Another pending change in the longer term is to redo the literate
programming tool. The current plan is to change it to use latex
syntax so that:


<<some chunk name>>=   becomes \begin{chunk}{some chunk name}
@                      becomes \end{chunk}
[[escaped text]]       becomes \escape{escaped text}
<<some chunk name>>    becomes \chunk{some chunk name}

This allows latex to at least parse the pamphlet files and 
makes the "transition" to literate programming seems less painful.
Since Axiom doesn't make use of any other features of noweb this 
is a syntactic change. The pre-process step still occurs and will
expand to handle chunk protocols beyond the current syntax of:

  <<pamphlet://URI>>


Tim