[WillAdams]

Interesting! Thanks for the explanation.

My needs/usages are far more prosaic, and I am barely a programmer, so the basic .dtx and package which makes documented .tex amenable to use with other languages and a couple of decent plain text editors is working for me.

I'd love for there to be broader support --- I considered quarto and it seemed quite promising, and I wish that LyX had a mode specifically for this, and for a while I was so desperate I was actually considering using GitBook's file inclusion feature, having all the code in discrete little files, and maintaining a series of batch files to concatenate them into working versions.

Alternately, I've been curious if there is some sort of intersection between Literate Programming and Visual Programming ---

>What does an algorithm look like?

[emporas]

>What does an algorithm look like?

That's a million dollar question. Can code be represented in a visual way? Bret Victor tries to give an answer to that. I don't personally think that it can, but there is sure a way, to represent some parts of a program in a visual way.

People use literate programming today in Emacs, in case you are interested. I strongly recommend to try Emacs, LLM's can write Elisp for you, to automate parts of your workflow.

[WillAdams]

Will look up Bret Victor --- thanks!

Unfortunately, while I like emacs-style keyboard bindings in Mac OS X, I prefer to use a stylus and often write things out by hand and use handwriting recognition to convert to text (hence my interest in visual programming languages) --- very much envied a co-worker (who was one of two folks I've met aside from TeX conferences who had read TAoCP) who just started it up at the beginning of the day and got all his work done in it during the course of the day.