Howard Abrams be71d9f49a Initial attempt at a background for the book

This is just a brain dump and the Background and Advantages section
need to be proof-read.

We should also expand on the general outline and table of contents, as
the headers here are just a start.

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Literate Programming in Org

This is a book on Literate Programming in Emacs using Org Mode.

The goal is to write the book as an org document, and then export it as:

Info, readable in Emacs
PDF and Epub, readable on devices
HTML to be viewable as a web page in EWW
Org, downloadable and useful when this project is cloned

A question on interactive-ness. Since the goal is to teach LP through Emacs (and not just a general guide on LP), we want the text viewable in Emacs, so that code can be easily copy/pasted into their own notes, as well as allowing the user to enter C-x C-e on any s-expression.

To render and read the book in Info, execute the following:

  (progn
    (find-file "lp-in-org.org")
    (find-file (org-texinfo-export-to-info ))
    (Info-mode)
    (Info-top-node))

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