From 85ffa82b6c829cd3bf9488b71d9ef4fc513e2933 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludovic Courtès Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 23:42:21 +0200 Subject: web: Update. * web/index.skb: Untabify, whitespace-cleanup. Mention EDSLs and "deep embedding". (Features): Add Unicode support. --- web/index.skb | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) 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 [])).]) - (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 -- cgit v1.2.3