Hello all,

I'm using racket and scribble-lp to automatically generate C-code.
I get nice LP documentation of my racket-level scripts, but (by the nature
of what I'm doing) I have code like:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
...
-------------------------------------------------------------------

When I run this with racket -- I get my C program out.

When I lp-include it into a scribble file, my <*> chunk is nicely
formatted, but my <c-main-program> chunk is rendered (from scribble --text)
as:

<c-main-program> ::=

  (list
  "int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {""\n""  "
  "return " <main-rv>";""\n"
  "}""\n")

Which, although strictly true, does not really represent the C source in
its most natural form. I have used this scheme (especially @-expressions)
as a text-preprocessing style to good effect in C, HTML and JavaScript.
But each time, I have come unstuck at this point when I need self-
documenting LP code. [I know there are s-expr representations for HTML and
JavaScript out there, but sometimes one just needs a text preprocessor]

Is there any way ask scribble to re-present the list of strings as an
@-form?

If not I could do with help in implementing such.

On closer inspection, a general form would not just look for
(list "string" ...) -> @list{string...} , since list could be any datum,
and "string" could be any datum (e.g. <main-rv>); so I was wondering if
the entire expression could be marked as "from-...@-form".

Could someone with a better overview of what options are available for me
to label my data in such a way point me in the right direction?

Regards,

Tim

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