[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Anansi 0.4.2 (literate programming pre-processor)

[Magnus Therning]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 04:22, John Millikin <jmillikin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anansi is a preprocessor for literate programs, in the model of NoWeb
> or nuweb. Literate programming allows both computer code and
> documentation to be generated from a single unified source.
>
> Home page: https://john-millikin.com/software/anansi/
> Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/anansi-0.4.2
>
> -----
>
> This release has a couple cool new features, suggested by Dirk Laurie.
>
> Markdown loom
> ===============
>
> Markdown, a lightweight markup language similar to ReStructuredText,
> is used often on web forums. Use [[ :loom anansi.markdown ]] in your
> documents to enable.

This announcement made me motivated to finally have a closer look at
LP.  Thanks for a rather excellent tool :)

There were some things that I bumped into though:

1. What to call files?  I understand (C)WEB suggests using .w, and
that noweb uses .nw, what should I call anansi files?
2. Combining anansi and pandoc works quite well for HTML, but it fails
miserably when trying to use the generated LaTeX:

    > markdown2pdf: ! LaTeX Error: Command \guillemotleft unavailable
in encoding OT1.

    Is there any good way to get around that?
3. Is there any editor support for anansi, syntax highlihgting etc?

/M

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