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It Ain't What You View, But The Way That You View It: documenting spreadsheets with Excelsior, semantic wikis, and literate programming

Human-Computer Interaction 2008-03-10 v1 Software Engineering

Abstract

I describe preliminary experiments in documenting Excelsior versions of spreadsheets using semantic wikis and literate programming. The objective is to create well-structured and comprehensive documentation, easy to use by those unfamiliar with the spreadsheets documented. I discuss why so much documentation is hard to use, and briefly explain semantic wikis and literate programming; although parts of the paper are Excelsior-specific, these sections may be of more general interest.

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@article{arxiv.0802.3478,
  title  = {It Ain't What You View, But The Way That You View It: documenting spreadsheets with Excelsior, semantic wikis, and literate programming},
  author = {Jocelyn Paine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.3478},
  year   = {2008}
}

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