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From: khan@milton.acs.washington.edu (Bob "Genghis" Khan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: C version of WEB (was: What is Literate Programming?)
Keywords: cnoweb WEB Knuth documentation
Message-ID: <1389@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 90 05:27:58 GMT
References: <1990Jan12.021006.2395@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: khan@milton.acs.washington.edu (Erik Seaberg)
Organization: Barbarian Driving School, University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <1990Jan12.021006.2395@agate.berkeley.edu> cotner@brahms.berkeley.edu (Carl Cotner) writes:

>... I believe that TeX is stored in a web file, which combines source code
>with documentation, in accordance with his belief that the 2 should be 
>closely integrated.
>
>I'm very interested in this.  I would look into web, only I believe that
>web will extract a Pascal file.  I'm more interested in working on a
>C based project.  Is there a C version of WEB?

I admit I haven't made use of it beyond trying the demo document, but I there's
a file called cnoweb.tex written by a Jim Fox (fox@cac.washington.edu) here at
UW.  It sets code in cmtt (fixed-pitch typewriter style) and allows comments in
cmr (roman, with any symbols and math formulae (!) you like); however, it
doesn't map assignments to special symbols (WEB turns := into TeX's arrow
symbol ...)  Since all TeX commands go in comments, a cnoweb-formatted source
will compile.  There's a demo program called pf.c also, they are available by
anonymous FTP on blake.u.washington.edu in directory /pub/TeX/cnoweb.  If
anyone can't do anon-FTP, I'll mail them to you.

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