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diff --git a/web/webfiles/spider/README b/web/webfiles/spider/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d312f486cb --- /dev/null +++ b/web/webfiles/spider/README @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ + +Using webfiles with spidery webs +================================ + +Spider is a very nice tool that can generates a weave and a tangle +program from a description of a language. + +Unfortunately, the control sequences that are written by spidery +weaves are not completely compatible with those output by +cweave. Therefore some extra macros are needed for the webfiles +package to handle spidery webs. The file "webkernel.tex", which goes +together with spider, must therefore be replaced with the version +found in this directory. (or patched, if you made changes to it +yourself) + +More unfortunately, some parts of the spidery weave output cannot be +handled by webfiles at all, due to small inconsistencies in +spider. This can only be fixed by recompiling these weave programs +using the changefile "sp-webfiles.ch", found in this directory. + +Please note also, that the control sequences that are defined in the +language specific files "*web.tex" ("ceeweb.tex" in case of ceeweb, +etc.) must be usable with both TeX and LaTeX if you want them to work +with both formatters. It is also recommended to use safe names for +them. (In fact, it is always recommended to use safe names in macro +packages, but in case of webs it has been common practice to use very +short names like \B, \1, or \ET; that's why I mention it here.) + +MWEB, the web system I created for the Matlab language, is already +equipped for the webfiles package; just take care not to use it with +an incompatible "webkernel.tex". + + +december 1997, Mark Potse + + Medical Physics Department + Academic Medical Center + Meibergdreef 15 + 1105 AZ Amsterdam + The Netherlands + + M.Potse@amc.uva.nl + +$Id: README,v 1.2 1999/12/21 10:23:03 potse Exp $
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