Literate Programming and PyLit

Even though I wrote a literate programming tool (PyWeb) I slowly came to realize that it's not very good.

Mostly, I followed the Web/Weave world view and cribbed their markup syntax. It's not bad, but, the PyWeb markup is based on some presumptions about literate programming that were, perhaps …

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iWeb File Extract and XML Iterators

Once upon a time, Apple offered iBlog. Then they switched to iWeb. Then they abandoned that market entirely.

That leaves some of us with content in iBlog as well as iWeb. Content we'd like to work with without doing extensive cutting and pasting. Or downloading from a web server. After …

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Omni Outliner and Content Conversion

First, and most important, Omni Outliner is a super-flexible tool. Crazy levels of flexibility. It's very much a generic-all-singing-all-dancing information management tool.

It has a broad spectrum of file export alternative formats. Most of which are fine for import into some kind of word processor.

But what if the data …

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Negative Requirements

Nothing is funnier than requirements which state things that are not to happen.
An actual quote.
... don't screw up cutting and pasting and the "/" vs "\" depending on unix / windows.
Why not list everything that's not supposed to happen?
  • No fire in the server room.
  • No anthrax outbreak.
  • No Zombie apocalypse …
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