WEB to cweb

Converting TEX from WEB to cweb

If you want to know what this is about, read the introductory paper in TUGBoat: Converting TEX from WEB to cweb

web2w Resources

• WEB to cweb, 2nd Edition, the printed book : WEB to cweb

• web2w: the complete package: web2w.zip, web2w.tgz

• web2w: only the book as pdf: web2w.pdf

TEX Resources

• TEX: source in cweb format: ctex.w

• TEX: C code: ctex.c

• TEX: TEX code: ctex.tex

Applications

• Igor Liferenko has prepared a UTF-8 version of TEX using web2w it is available at github.com/igor-liferenko/tex. It implements the features you expect from a fully usable implementation: handling of interrupts, exit codes and trailing newlines, as well as format loading, command line arguments, editor invocation, and setting the current time.

• Thanks to Igor Liferenko there is also a cweb implementation of METAFONT available at github.com/igor-liferenko/mf. It includes the same usability features as his TEX implementation and the online graphics display using Wayland.

Errata

• The identifier "register" defined in section §209 of TEX is a reserved word in C. It needs to be added to the list of reserved words at the end of section 5.5 of web2w:

  SYM_PTR("register")->name="internal_register";