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10. What other resources are available?

10.1 World Wide Web

An untapped resource (by me anyway ;-) is the World Wide Web. Marcus Speh has expended considerable effort in this regard. If you're connected to WWW, then access:

  http://info.desy.de:80/user/projects/LitProg.html
If you aren't connected to WWW, telnet to info.cern.ch and explore. You can reach Marcus' literate programming pages by typing:
  go http://info.desy.de:80/user/projects/LitProg.html
or use a WWW browser and access the URL
  ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news-answers/www/resources/literate-programming
Help for people who have only Email and neither WWW nor telnet, can be obtained by Email from TEST-LIST@INFO.CERN.CH by sending a message,
  SEND <http_address>,
for example,
  SEND http://info.desy.de:80/user/projects/LitProg.html
to retrieve the LitProg library page. A help file can be retrieved by sending a message to the list server above with the text
  HELP
in the body of the message. Instructions will be returned by email. For literate programming documents, you can try anonymous ftp to rtfm.mit.edu and retrieve the official Usenet resource file
  /pub/usenet/news.answers/www/resources/literate-programming

10.2 TeX Resources

Another resource of interest to literate programmers is the comp.text.tex newsgroup. If you're using (La)TeX as your typsetting system and have access to internet, then you should investigate this resource.

Another reason the TeX resources should be important is that so many of the literate programming tools rely on either plain TeX or LaTeX as their text formatter. (La)TeX software systems exist for most computing platforms. These systems can be found on CTAN and other major archive sites. Use archie to find them or simply ftp to one of the CTAN sites and browse.


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