howto: move limbo'd docs into toplevel doc dir for preservation

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diff --git a/docs/howto-write-a-block/make_numbered_listing.py b/docs/howto-write-a-block/make_numbered_listing.py
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+++ b/docs/howto-write-a-block/make_numbered_listing.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import sys
+import os, os.path
+from optparse import OptionParser
+
+def quote_line (line):
+    line = line.replace ('&', '&')
+    line = line.replace ('<', '&lt;')
+    line = line.replace ('>', '&gt;')
+    line = line.replace ("'", '&apos;')
+    line = line.replace ('"', '&quot;')
+    return line
+
+def generate_listing (input_filename, title=None):
+    inf = open (input_filename, "r")
+    output_filename = os.path.basename (input_filename) + '.xml'
+    outf = open (output_filename, "w")
+    outf.write ('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>\n')
+    # outf.write ('<example id="%s">\n' % (input_filename,))
+    # if not title:
+    #     title = input_filename
+    # outf.write ('<title>')
+    # outf.write (title)
+    # outf.write ('</title>\n')
+    outf.write ('<programlisting>\n');
+
+    lineno = 0
+    for line in inf:
+        line = line.expandtabs (8)
+        line = quote_line (line)
+        lineno = lineno + 1
+        outf.write ('%3d  %s' % (lineno, line))
+
+    outf.write ('</programlisting>\n')
+    # outf.write ('</example>\n')
+
+
+def main ():
+    for file in sys.argv[1:]:
+        generate_listing (file)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main ()
+