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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label dtx</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Documented LaTeX sources (<code>.dtx</code> files)</h3>
-<p/>LaTeX2e, and most contributed macro packages, are now written in a
-<a href="FAQ-lit.html">literate programming style</a>, with source and
-documentation in the
-same file. This format, known as &#8216;doc&#8217;, in fact originated before the
-days of the LaTeX project as one of the &#8220;Mainz&#8221; series of
-packages. A documented source file conventionally has the suffix
-<code>.dtx</code>, and will normally be &#8216;stripped&#8217; before use with
-LaTeX; an installation file (<code>.ins</code>) is normally provided,
-to automate this process of removing comments for speed of loading.
-To read the comments, you can run LaTeX on the
-<code>.dtx</code> file to produce a nicely formatted version of the
-documented code. Several
-packages can be included in one <code>.dtx</code> file (they&#8217;re sorted
-out by the <code>.ins</code> file), with conditional
-sections, and there are facilities for indexes of macros, etc.
-<p/>Anyone can write <code>.dtx</code> files; the format is explained in
-<a href="FAQ-books.html">The LaTeX Companion</a>, and a tutorial is available
-from CTAN (which comes with skeleton <code>.dtx</code> and
-<code>.ins</code> files).
-<p/>Composition of <code>.dtx</code> files is supported in <i>emacs</i> by
-<a href="FAQ-editors.html">AUC-TeX</a>.
-<p/>Another useful way of generating <code>.dtx</code> files is to write the
-documentation and the code separately, and then to combine them using
-the <i>makedtx</i> system. This technique has particular value in
-that the documentation file can be used separately to generate
-HTML output; it is often quite difficult to make
-<a href="FAQ-LaTeX2HTML.html">LaTeX to HTML conversion</a> tools deal
-with <code>.dtx</code> files, since they use an unusual class file.
-<p/>The <code>.dtx</code> files are not used by LaTeX after they have been
-processed to produce <code>.sty</code> or <code>.cls</code> (or whatever)
-files. They need not be kept with the working system; however, for
-many packages the <code>.dtx</code> file is the primary source of
-documentation, so you may want to keep <code>.dtx</code> files elsewhere.
-<p/>An interesting sideline to the story of <code>.dtx</code> files is the
-<i>docmfp</i> package, which extends the model of the <i>doc</i>
-package to
-
- <a href="FAQ-MF.html">Metafont</a> and <a href="FAQ-MP.html">MetaPost</a>,
-thus permitting documented distribution of bundles containing code for
-Metafont and MetaPost together with related LaTeX code.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>AUC-TeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/auctex">support/auctex</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/auctex.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>clsguide.pdf</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/doc/clsguide.pdf">macros/latex/doc/clsguide.pdf</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/clsguide.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>docmfp.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/docmfp.zip">macros/latex/contrib/docmfp</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/docmfp/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/docmfp.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>docstrip.tex</i></tt><dd>Part of the LaTeX distribution
-<dt><tt><i>DTX tutorial</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/dtxtut.zip">info/dtxtut</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/dtxtut/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/dtxtut.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>makedtx</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/makedtx.zip">support/makedtx</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/makedtx/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/makedtx.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dtx">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dtx</a>
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