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Maxtal Interscript Home Page

Welcome to the Maxtal Interscript home page. Maxtal Interscript is an advanced literate programming system, designed to support integrated development of code and documentation. It requires CPython 1.5.1 to operate, and benefits from availability of some Posix features and common tools.

News: Version 1.0a7 released

Version 1.0a7 has undergone significant rearchitecting: instead of a single Python script, it is now Python package, with a tiny command line launcher. This should enable a GUI launcher to be easily written for the Mac (or any other windowing system).

Interscript also has quite a few new features. These include:

Browse Documentation

On this Web site, you will find the complete HTML documentation for Interscript version 1.0a7. This is an experimental alpha release and is provided for evaluation purposes only.

You can browse the advanced web version, which consists of many small pages, uses frames, and includes several special indexes. The table of contents of this version provides dynamic folding on browsers using the Microsoft Internet Explorer Document Object Model.

Maxtal Interscript can also produce documentation in a simple, monolithic, single page. This version is not available for browsing online because it is too big -- about 2Megs!

Download the package

You can download Maxtal Interscript from the FTP site, the URL is ftp://ftp.triode.net.au/ftp/skaller/interscript.tgz which is the complete Maxtal Interscript package as a gzipped, tarred, archive. The tarball is about 1.5 Meg, and includes ready to run Python script, the full interscript sources, and the complete documentation in web, flat html, plain text, and latex format. Unpack this archive somewhere Python can find it.

Feedback

Please mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au to contact the author, John Skaller.

OSS Licence

Software on the FTP site is available free for any use, except where components are, or are derived from, third party components, in which case the licence for those components applies. The following Maxtal components are so encumbered: tokenise.pak (LINL), dm.pak (free for non-SPAM use), tcl/tk manual (ELF).

Commercial Support

I will consider any requests for commercial support. Please feel free to contact me if you're considering a serious investment in literate programming.