Litrepl: Literate Paper Processor Promoting Transparency More Than Reproducibility
Abstract
Litrepl is a lightweight text processing tool designed to recognize and evaluate code sections within Markdown or Latex documents.This functionality is useful for both batch document section evaluation and interactive coding within a text editor, provided a straightforward integration is established.Inspired by Project Jupyter, Litrepl aims to facilitate the creation of research documents.Following developments in software deployment theory, however, we shift our focus from informal reproducibility to enhancing transparency in communication with interpreters by relying on POSIX interfaces: named pipes are accessible via the file system, asynchronous process identifiers are visible in status reports.The tool provides a comprehensive command-line interface, making it easier to integrate with code editors.The project repository includes a reference Vim plugin.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Digital Humanities and Scholarship
Web Data Mining and Analysis
Interactive and Immersive Displays
Publication details
- Journal / source
- The Journal of Open Source Software
- Publisher
- The Open Journal
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 123
- Pages
- 8384–8384
- Publication date
- 24 July 2026
- Language
- EN