CTAN Update: pwebmac
This updated version of the 'pwebmac' package makes a few cosmetic changes in the 'pwebmac.tex' macros that won't affect users. (Two if-else blocks were slightly simplyfied and the 'link color' can be changed in a single spot.) It does, however, make very significant changes to the 'makeall' driver script, which is now capable of producing twice as many tarballs than its predecessor. It also adds timestamps on almost all PDF documents. And it typesets the CTWILL program in its own format with mini-indexes per spread. Lastly, this update adds file 'index.md' that can be used to produce a central 'entry point' into the huge collection of tarballs and their contents. In total, it references a library of 58 volumes with 5,941 pages (and counting).
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/pwebmac The package’s files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/web/pwebmac/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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Pwebmac – Consolidated WEB macros for DVI and PDF output
The original 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 pdfwebmac.tex
for PDF output (only) with pdfTeX.
Jonathan Kew’s 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.
The present pwebmac package integrates these three
WEB macro files similar to cwebmac.tex in Silvio Levy’s
and Don Knuth’s CWEB system,
so pwebmac.tex can be used with plain TeX
, pdfTeX,
and XeTeX alike.
Its initial application is the production of PDF files for all
major WEB programs for TeX and friends
as distributed in
TeX Live.
For this purpose, the shell script makeall was
whipped together; it provides various commandline options
and works around several quirks
in the WEB sources.
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 created by weave.
From there, all depends on the TeX engine
you use.
| Package | Pwebmac |
| Version | 5.1 2025-03-16 |
| Maintainer | Andreas Scherer |