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diff --git a/web/index.skb b/web/index.skb
index 698fe16..277acd9 100644
--- a/web/index.skb
+++ b/web/index.skb
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
;;;
(use-modules (skribilo ast)
- (skribilo engine)
- (skribilo source lisp)
- (skribilo package html-navtabs))
+ (skribilo engine)
+ (skribilo source lisp)
+ (skribilo package html-navtabs))
(define (html-tabs n e)
;; Create one "navigation tab" for each chapter.
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
(if (engine? html)
(begin
;; Customizing the HTML output...
- (engine-custom-set! html 'css "skribilo.css")
+ (engine-custom-set! html 'css "skribilo.css")
(engine-custom-set! html 'html-navtabs-produce-css? #f)
(engine-custom-set! html 'html-navtabs html-tabs)
(engine-custom-set! html 'charset "UTF-8"))))
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
(define (latex . body)
(ref :url "http://www.latex-project.org/" :text body))
-
+
(define (context . body)
(ref :url "http://www.pragma-ade.nl/" :text body))
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
(define (stklos . body)
(ref :url "http://www.stklos.org/" :text body))
-
+
(define %user-sui
;; Location of the User Manual's SUI file.
"doc/user.sui")
@@ -130,8 +130,12 @@ text.])
(p [Last but not least, Skribilo can be thought of as a complete
,(emph [document programming framework]) for the ,(scheme [Scheme
programming language]) that may be used to automate a variety of
-document generation tasks. Skribilo uses ,(guile [GNU Guile]) 1.8 or 2.0 as
-the underlying Scheme implementation.])
+document generation tasks. Technically, the Skribilo language/API is an
+embedded domain-specific language (EDSL), implemented ,(it [via])
+so-called ,(ref :url
+"http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Embedded_domain_specific_language#Degree_of_embedding"
+:text [“deep embedding”]). Skribilo uses ,(guile [GNU Guile]) 1.8 or
+2.0 as the underlying Scheme implementation.])
(chapter :title [Features] :number #f :file #f
@@ -154,6 +158,7 @@ computer programs]), and others.])
(item [,(ref :skribe %user-sui :chapter "Bibliographies" :text
[Bibliography management])—i.e., BibTeX on steroids thanks to the
programmability brought by ,(scheme [Scheme]).])
+ (item [Unicode support (when using Guile 2.0).])
(item [Use of a proper module system (that of ,(guile
[Guile])) rather than ,(tt [load])-style interactions.])
(item [And much more! :-)])))
@@ -193,8 +198,8 @@ colored using Skribilo's computer program coloring features.])
(mark "self")
(tt (prog
- (source :language skribe
- :file "index.skb"))))
+ (source :language skribe
+ :file "index.skb"))))
(chapter :title [Mailing List] :number #f :file #f
:ident "mailing-list"
@@ -215,11 +220,11 @@ repository using the following incantation:
You can then happily hack on your side and eventually promote your
changes ,(ref :ident "mailing-list" :text [on the mailing-list]).])
-
+
(p [The repository can also be ,(ref :url
"http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=skribilo.git;a=summary" :text
[browsed on-line]).])
-
+
(p [A tentative list of milestones and to-do items is in the ,(ref
:url "http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=skribilo.git;a=blob;f=TODO" :text
[,(tt [TODO]) file]).]))
@@ -271,7 +276,7 @@ entitled ,(ref :url
"http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/Manuel.Serrano/publi/jfp05/article.html"
:text (it [Skribe: A Functional Authoring Language])) provides further
insight.])
- (item [,(ref :url
+ (item [,(ref :url
"http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/index.html" :text [Scribble]), the
documentation system of Racket, is similar in spirit to Skribilo/Skribe.
It has ,(ref :url
@@ -298,12 +303,12 @@ programming language).])
,(ref :text [implementation strategies for a purely functional SXML
tree] :url "http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/parent-pointers.txt") is a good
source of inspiration.])
- (item [,(ref :url
- "http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/mistie/mistie.html" :text
+ (item [,(ref :url
+ "http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/mistie/mistie.html" :text
[Mistie]), a “programmable filter” in Scheme (for MzScheme) that
allows the definition of filters from one markup language to another
one.])
- (item [,(ref :url "http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~jeff/nonpareil/"
+ (item [,(ref :url "http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~jeff/nonpareil/"
:text [Nonpareil]), Jeff Kingston's much anticipated successor to ,(lout
[Lout]), both being purely functional document formatting
systems/languages. Although Nonpareil is more ambitious than Skribilo,
@@ -317,7 +322,7 @@ equivalent in Skribilo since Skribilo doesn't address text layout by
itself). It also includes interesting discussions about text selection
and document traversal (Nonpareil's ,(it [doc]) objects have no parent
pointers, unlike Skribilo's ,(tt [<ast>])).])
- (item [Good ol' ,(ref :url
+ (item [Good ol' ,(ref :url
"http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" :text [GNU Texinfo]) abstracts
the various kinds of back-ends very well (in particular its
cross-reference-related commands).])
@@ -335,9 +340,9 @@ derivative of ,(ref :url "http://docbook.org/" :text [Docbook]).])
"http://www.t3x.org/attic/index.html#sd" :text [SD]), ,(ref :url
"http://triptico.com/software/grutatxt.html" :text [Grutatxt]), and many
others.])))
-
+
(chapter :title [The Name] :number #f :file #f
-
+
(p [Skribilo is an ,(wikipedia/esperanto [Esperanto]) noun, which
literally means ,(ref :url
"http://www.reta-vortaro.de/revo/art/skrib.html#skrib.0ilo" :text [“a
@@ -353,6 +358,5 @@ Skribilo is based on, is an adverb meaning “writing” in
;;; Local Variables:
;;; coding: utf-8
;;; ispell-local-dictionary: "american"
+;;; indent-tabs-mode: nil
;;; End:
-
-;;; arch-tag: fd51e0ce-d99f-4b70-8b92-9afbcfcf8855