Re: DRY way to insert source code into an article?

On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 15:49 +0100, Nat Pryce wrote:
> > Do people write the article in some plain
> > text format (TeX? DocBook?) or some open document format (ODT?) and
> > then use a template-generation strategy to generate final document?
> 
> I use Docbook, have defined my own XML format for some of my
> documentation projects, and am also looking into DITA for reference
> manuals and the like.

I've used DocBook with vi/dbhelper.vim and a couple of Ruby scripts to
extract and execute the code samples.  Works pretty well, although I
think I'll have to write another book or two before I really grok those
XSLT scripts...

Yours,

Tom

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