[texhax] Why isn't plain.tex plain.web? What would be the best way to update it?
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Thu Aug 22 02:22:31 CEST 2013
On 2013-08-21 at 11:50:10 -0400, William Adams wrote:
> On Aug 21, 2013, at 11:02 AM, Philip Taylor wrote:
>
> > To answer your subject, as opposed to your body :
>
> Thanks. I was curious more to the philosophy rather than the
> mechanics (changed the subject to match).
>
> It should be straight-forward enough to rename plain.tex to
> something else and then use that --- I'm just surprised that it
> isn't plain.web as a source file (I seem to recall that at some
> point someone published a literate program version of it,
> interweaving it w/ the text from _The TeXbook_, but that would run
> afoul of the copyright / license).
A .web file is the documented source of a Pascal program. But
plain.tex is a macro package.
tangle tex.web -> tex.p (the Pascal source of TeX, the program)
weave tex.web -> tex.tex (the documented source code)
You cannot use Web for TeX macro packages. Instead you can create a
LaTeX .dtx file. See
texdoc doc
texdoc docstrip
Regards,
Reinhard
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