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Can someone explain what reasons would lead you to choose this over simply writing in HTML or another markup language directly?
by bastawhiz 5y ago
Can someone explain what reasons would lead you to choose this over simply writing in HTML or another markup language directly?
- nerdponx 5y agoIt seems more like "TeX-but-btw-it's-Scheme" than HTML. Interesting idea, hard to go wrong with S-expressions.
- klysm 5y agoAdding a compilation step let’s you change the way things look easier in addition to having clearer semantics for the intent
- rajandatta 5y agoI believe the key difference with using a tool like Skribilo is that you have the full computational power of Scheme and can generate dynamic content. Other tools may be equal to just the writing aspect but this is Scheme turned inside out. Instead of a language creating content; this is content blocks interwoven with language output.
- warkdarrior 5y agoPDF with embedded Javascript -- bad idea! Text with embedded Scheme -- good idea?
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- brudgers 5y agoScheme source code is text with embedded scheme ;). The issue with JavaScript embeds in PDF’s is that PDF’s are final documents and the default assumption is that they are not executables…a mistaken assumption perhaps but the default nonetheless. Skribilo is source code for a document…it will tend to generate a final document and tend not to be the distributed artifact.
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- tannhaeuser 5y agoHad and still have that with OpenJade since 1994 or so, based on ISO 8879:1986 (SGML) and ISO 10179:1996 (DSSSL/Scheme).
- kimi 5y agoSounds like PHP....