I absolutely agree. I'm currently working on a WYSIWYG literate programming
and the underlying
storage model of the program is XML (inspired by your xmLP work).
You can read a bit about what I'm doing here:
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~charlie/projects/litprog/

At 09:27 PM 11/24/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>I wish I had as nice a front end for
>xmLP. I've often felt that the lack of nice front-ends has hurt the
>take-up of
>LitProg (& Emacs does not count as a nice front-end, not for the 95%
>majority).
>An ideal LitProg editor would be WYSIWYG, so that what you see when editing is
>equivalent to what you would get with a traditional LitProg tool after
>"weaving" the documentation.

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