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diff --git a/web/pwebmac/README.md b/web/pwebmac/README.md index 59d5e38f99..030376e19d 100644 --- a/web/pwebmac/README.md +++ b/web/pwebmac/README.md @@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ The original [WEB](https://ctan.org/pkg/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 -Hàn Thế Thành has modified these macros in his (outdated?) `pdfwebmac.tex` for +Hàn Thế Thành has extended these macros in his (outdated?) `pdfwebmac.tex` for PDF output (only) with [pdfTeX](https://ctan.org/pkg/pdftex). Jonathan Kew's [XeTeX](https://ctan.org/pkg/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. +`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 @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ Its initial application is the production of PDF files for all major WEB programs for “TeX and friends” as distributed in [TeX Live](https://www.tug.org/texlive). 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 ``PDF -library'' can be browsed in the `knuth-pdf` package. +works around several “quirks” in the WEB sources. The resulting collection +of PDF documents can be browsed in the `knuth-pdf` 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 @@ -30,4 +30,4 @@ clickable links and bookmarks (depending on your PDF viewer). The `pwebmac` package is free software and may be used without constraints. -This is version “4.6.2” of the `pwebmac` package — 2021-03-17, Andreas Scherer. +This is version “4.6.3” of the `pwebmac` package — 2021-08-12, Andreas Scherer. |