Directory web/pwebmac
pwebmac – Consolidated WEB macros for DVI and PDF output
The original WEB system by Donald Knuth has the macros webmac.tex
that produce DVI output only; for historic reasons, it will never be modified (apart from catastrophic errors). Hàn Thế Thành has extended these macros in his (outdated?) pdfwebmac.tex
for PDF output (only) with pdfTeX. Jonathan Kew's XeTeX has similar macros xewebmac.tex
by Khaled Hosny that include and modify webmac.tex
for PDF output; all these macros can only be used with a specific “TeX engine” each.
The present pwebmac
package integrates these three WEB macro files similar to cwebmac.tex
in Silvio Levy's and Don Knuth's CWEB system, so pwebmac.tex
can be used with “plain TeX,” “pdfTeX,” and “XeTeX” alike. And it adds full support for Martin Ruckert's “HiTeX” engine and its HINT
output format.
Its initial application is the production of PDF and HINT files for all major WEB programs for “TeX and friends” as distributed in TeX Live. For this purpose, the shell script makeall
was whipped together; it provides various commandline options and works around several “quirks” in the WEB sources. The resulting collection of PDF documents can be browsed in the knuth-pdf
package and the collection of HINT documents are available in the knuth-hint
package.
WEB programmers who want to use pwebmac.tex
instead of the default webmac.tex
in their programs have to change the first line in the TeX file created by weave
. From there, all depends on the “TeX engine” you use: “plain TeX” by default creates DVI output, “plain TeX” with the invocation tex "\let\pdf+\input…"
, pdftex
, and xetex
create PDF output with clickable links and bookmarks (depending on your PDF viewer), and hitex
creates HINT output that can be viewed with the hintview
program.
The pwebmac
package is free software and may be used without constraints.
This is version “4.8.1” of the pwebmac
package — 2022-06-25, Andreas Scherer.
Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (20.6k).
pwebmac – Consolidated WEB macros for DVI and PDF output
The original WEB system by Donald Knuth has the macros webmac.tex that produce DVI output only; for historic reasons, it will never be modified (apart from catastrophic errors). Hàn Thế Thành has modified these macros in his pdfwebmac.tex for PDF output (only) with pdfTeX. Jonathan Kew’s XeTeX has similar macros xewebmac.tex by Khaled Hosny that modify webmac.tex for PDF output; these macros can only be used with a specific “TeX engine” each.
The present pwebmac package integrates these three WEB macro files similar to cwebmac.tex in Silvio Levy’s and Don Knuth’s CWEB system, so pwebmac.tex can be used with “plain TeX”, pdfTeX, and XeTeX alike.
Its initial application is the production of PDF files for all major WEB programs for “TeX and friends” as distributed in TeX Live. For this purpose, the shell script makeall was whipped together; it provides various commandline options and works around several “quirks” in the WEB sources.
WEB programmers who want to use pwebmac.tex instead of the default webmac.tex in their programs have to change the first line in the TeX file created by weave. From there, all depends on the “TeX engine” you use.
Package | pwebmac |
Support | https://lists.tug.org/tex-k |
Repository | https://github.com/ascherer/web |
Version | 4.8.1 2022-06-25 |
Licenses | Public Domain Software |
Maintainer | Andreas Scherer |
Contained in | TeX Live as pwebmac |
Topics | Litprog |
