Hi, I would like to "advertise" TeXmacs (http://www.texmacs.org/) to the Haskell comunity as a possible front-end for literate programming in Haskell (and GHCI interaction). TeXmacs is a system which allows the production of documents featuring high quality typesetting (comparable to TeX) and high level of customizability (a la Emacs). It does not rely on TeX for the typesetting (but can export to Latex, HTML, etc..). It is written in C++ (unfortunately not Haskell) and use Scheme as extension language (specifically Guile). It has been in use for at least 10 years and has plugins for many external applications like Pari, Axiom, Maxima, Octave, R, Yacas, etc...
From the webpage: "GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content (text, graphics, mathematics, interactive content, etc.). The rendering engine uses high-quality typesetting algorithms so as to produce professionally looking documents, which can either be printed out or presented from a laptop."
It would be nice to develop a pluging for GHC/GHCI to allow "direct" literate programming style with high-quality rendering. (If someone want to try before I find the time to do it myself.... ) Massimiliano -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/WYSIWYG-literate-programming-tp21682184p21682184.html Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.