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WEAVE(1)                               General Commands Manual                              WEAVE(1)

NAME
       weave - translate WEB to TeX

SYNOPSIS
       weave [-x] webfile[.web] [{changefile[.ch]|-} [outfile[.tex]]]

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete documentation for this version
       of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.

       The weave program is used to create a TeX file for viewing a Web program.  It takes appropri‐
       ate care of typographic details like page layout and the use of indentation,  italics,  bold‐
       face,  etc., and it supplies extensive cross-index information that it gathers automatically.
       The command line arguments are the same as for tangle except for the option: -x says to  omit
       the index, module name list, and table of contents pages.  (A CONTENTS.tex file will still be
       written  when  the TeX file is processed, however, unless some macros in webmac.tex are rede‐
       fined.)

       The output TeX file name is formed by adding .tex to the root of the Web file  name  or  from
       the third argument.  In this case you can specify '-' as an empty change file.

       There are several macros that probably should be redefined by the programmer at the beginning
       of  the Web file.  It is a good idea to set \title to the name of the program.  And, to cause
       output of only changed modules, one can say \let\maybe=\iffalse (usually as the first  change
       in the change file).

ENVIRONMENT
       The  environment  variable WEBINPUTS is used to search for the input files, or the system de‐
       fault if WEBINPUTS is not set.  See tex(1) for the details of the searching.

FILES
       $TEXMFMAIN/tex/plain/knuth-lib/webmac.tex
           TeX macros used by weave output.

SEE ALSO
       tangle(1) for references, authors, and other information.

Web2C 2023                                  02 March 2022                                   WEAVE(1)