Re: [Axiom-developer] build-improvements and latex

[Ralf Hemmecke]

On 10/22/2006 12:42 AM, root wrote:
> > You are right and the Makefile is wrong. Everything with extension
> > .pamphlet should be processed by noweave before calling latex.
>
> nope. that's not the case.
>
> noweb is just a preprocessing tool, not a requirement for 
> literate programming.
>
> there is no requirement (or intended requirement) that a .pamphlet
> file implies running noweb. some of the files in any documented
> axiom system will not contain code and will not need noweb. they
> are, however, perfectly vaild .pamphlet files.
>
> t

Please define the format of a .pamphlet file so that people can write 
tools to support that format. (If the format is moving, that is not a 
problem, but we should always have an up-to-date description of that 
format.)

Up to now I thought the format is like the one in noweb, but already 
with your patch to noweb, you modified that. Without a documented format 
we end up like SPAD is now. A language without formal specification. 
Good luck.

Ralf