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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-01-17 21:41:51 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-01-17 21:41:51 +0000 |
commit | 487ca4806cc046076293cf6cc5fbba0db282bac7 (patch) | |
tree | 847b412ab5158dd7bdd7ed7e5a4cc3fbca94be32 /Build/source/texk/web2c/web2c/README | |
parent | a3d3111bfe26b8e5f5bc6049dfb2a4ca2edc7881 (diff) |
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diff --git a/Build/source/texk/web2c/web2c/README b/Build/source/texk/web2c/web2c/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3471cac9798 --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/texk/web2c/web2c/README @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +This directory contains the programs that convert the original web +sources to C. + +The convert shell script is the thing that actually gets invoked from +the Makefile. It runs web2c, fixwrites, and splitup in turn, plus +various sed nonsense. web2c parses Pascal and outputs C; fixwrites +shouldn't be necessary, it converts multiple-argument writes into C; +splitup splits the output file into pieces for the sake of broken +compilers. + +To define a new symbol (e.g., a function) to be used in the change +files, it's necessary to add it to texmf.defines (if it's only used in +TeX/MF/MP) or common.defines (otherwise) here, as well as making the +actual definition. New functions in the libraryshould be declared +somewhere, probably cpascal.h. Of course no underscores are allowed, +since tangle removes them. + + |