WEB is a computer programming system created by Donald E. Knuth. TeX and Metafont are written in WEB. This tag covers WEB and related tools (CWEB, web2c).
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What language is TeX implemented in?
I read on Wikipedia that the first version of TeX was written in SAIL. However, does anyone know what language later versions (i.e the current one) are implemented in?
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How can I make a PDF of the source of pdftex?
I got the files tex.web and pdftex.web from the texlive svn repo. I ran
weave tex.web
pdftex tex.tex
which produced a file tex.pdf with a nicely typeset, cross-referenced listing of the WEB source ...
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What macros are defined in a Web2c format file?
Web2c defines its format style using Pascal strings, so there are no separator characters between csnames. Is there a straightforward way of listing all csnames bound in a .fmt file?
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Tool for generating a website's BibTex using the URL?
Is there an existing tool for generating BibTeX of a website using its URL? What I'm thinking is something like a web tool or a Python script that does this.
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About web2c, c code conversion
I'd like to convert some Tex-and-friends code to C, so that I can play with modifying it. As I understand it, the process is:
(1) The tangle utility converts foo.web to a foo.p (Pascal) file, and ...
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How to use tangle to merge to get a single merged file from original source and change files
I'm trying to read and understand the TeX source, but it is difficult to keep track of when I should be reading code from the original file and when I should be reading code from the change file. I ...
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rewrite tex.web in C++? [closed]
A few weeks ago I read this article about some difficultites bring TeX to the iPad.
It made me wonder: why not rewrite TeX.web in C++11? The codebase itself is now quite stable, and (unfortunately) ...
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Producing Generic or Portable TEX Source Codes Using - the World Wide Web- Standards [closed]
Is it possible to write or produce a(n) -ultimate- standard coding pattern for TEX source codes those might work well enough across the "World Wide Web" on almost every each of platforms available, ...
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Tool for merging WEB file with its change file
Is there any tool that can take a sample.web and sample.ch file and produce a merged.web file as output?
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Undefined control sequence in a NOWEB document [closed]
I'm writing a TeX-noweb document. I compile it with
noweave -tex -filter "elide comment:*" texcode.nw > documentation.tex
but when I try to compile the resulting file with
xetex -halt-on-error ...
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TeX typesetting algorithms for web sites [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tex like formatting on blog posts
I wonder if there are any solutions for using TeX typesetting algorithms for web sites publishing to make pages as beautiful and ...
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Why won’t GmailTeX render in “compose” window? [closed]
The chrome extension GmailTeX allows one to render TeX in messages received, or live as you compose a message. This program has worked flawlessly for me for over a year. In the last couple of weeks ...
