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stubbing out the introductory text in litorgy.org

Eric Schulte 16 years ago
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@@ -1,7 +1,20 @@
-#+TITLE: Examples of Litorgy in Action
+#+TITLE: Litorgy
 #+OPTIONS: toc:nil num:nil ^:nil
 #+OPTIONS: toc:nil num:nil ^:nil
 
 
-* interaction between languages (disk usage in your home directory)
+* litorgy
+
+Litorgy enables *communication* between programming languages and
+between people.
+
+Litorgy provides:
+- communication between programs :: Data passes seamlessly between
+     different programming languages, text, and tables.
+- communication between people :: Data and calculations are embedded
+     in the same document as notes explanations and reports.
+
+** communication between programs
+
+*** interaction between languages (disk usage in your home directory)
 
 
 This will work for Linux and Mac users, not so sure about shell
 This will work for Linux and Mac users, not so sure about shell
 commands for windows users.
 commands for windows users.
@@ -35,18 +48,18 @@ cd ~ && du -sc * |grep -v total
 pie(dirs[,1], labels = dirs[,2])
 pie(dirs[,1], labels = dirs[,2])
 #+end_src
 #+end_src
 
 
-* calculations on tables (grades in a table)
+*** operate on the contents of tables
+*** be called from inside tables
+
 
 
-| names      | grade 1 | grade 2 | grade 3 | Total | Letter grade |
-|------------+---------+---------+---------+-------+--------------|
-| student 01 |   91.80 |   96.40 |   97.00 | 95.07 | C            |
-| student 02 |   88.78 |   89.15 |   98.00 | 91.98 | B            |
-| student 03 |   92.00 |   95.14 |   97.00 | 94.71 | B            |
-| student 04 |   84.00 |   74.62 |   88.00 | 82.21 | B            |
+** communication between people
 
 
-Use R to plot distributions...
+*** calculation in/on tables (litorgies own tests)
+litorgies own functional tests are contained in a large org-mode
+table, allowing the test suite to be run be evaluation of the table
+and the results to be collected in the same table.
 
 
-* interactive documentation (tutorial)
+*** interactive documentation (tutorial)
 
 
 This would demonstrate applicability to Reproducible Research, and
 This would demonstrate applicability to Reproducible Research, and
 Literate Programming.
 Literate Programming.