Weave: Translate WEB to TeX

Weave creates a TeX document from a WEB source file (see section WEB: Literate programming), assuming various macros defined in `webmac.tex'. It takes care of typographic details such as page layout, indentation, and italicizing identifiers. It also automatically gathers and outputs extensive cross-reference information. Synopsis:

weave [option]... webfile[.web] [changefile[.ch]]

The output is to the basename of webfile extended with `.tex'; for example, `weave /wherever/foo.web' creates `./foo.tex'. Weave applies changefile to webfile before writing the output; by default, there is no change file.

The program accepts the following option, as well as the standard `-verbose', `-help' and `-version' (see section Common options):

`-x'

Omit the cross-reference information: the index, the list of WEB module names, and the table of contents (an empty `CONTENTS.tex' file will still be written when the Weave output file is processed by TeX using the default `webmac.tex', though).

Conventionally, WEB programmers should define the TeX \title macro at the beginning of the source file. Also, to get output of only changed modules, one can say \let\maybe=\iffalse (usually as the first change in the change file).

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