Ubuntu Manpage: nowebfilters - filters and parsers for use with noweb

NAME

       nowebfilters - filters and parsers for use with noweb

SYNOPSIS

       [noweave|notangle|noweb] [-filter filter|-markup parser] ...

DESCRIPTION

       This  man  page documents the various filters and parsers that are supplied with noweb(1).
       A filter, which transforms the pipeline representation, is used with the  -filter  option.
       A  parser,  which  reads a source file and emits the pipeline representation, is used with
       the -markup option.  Not all filters and parsers are available at all installations.

FILTERS

autodefs.*
noweave's -autodefs and -showautodefs options use these filters, which
automatically find defined identifiers. The * stands for the name of a programming
language. (Icon installation only.)

btdefn The btdefn filter uses Dave Hanson's convention to mark definitions. In code
chunks, each defining instances of an identifier should be preceded by a single
backtick character (ASCII 140). The btdefn filter removes these backticks from the
code and converts them to definitions, thus: `definition. It, not @ %def, should
be used with both notangle(1) and noweave(1), at least for programs written in C-
like languages.

disambiguate
The disambiguate filter makes it possible to abbreviate chunk names using a
trailing ellipsis (three periods), in the style of WEB and nuweb(1).

docs2comments options
The docs2comments filter converts documentation chunks to comments in code chunks.
Options include -all, which converts all documentation chunks into comments; -one
converts only one documentation chunk preceding each code chunk. The -wk option
formats comments k columns wide.

Other options control the language and style of the comment. Languages available
include -awk, -c, -c++, -f77, -f90, -icn, -icon, -lisp, -m3, -ml, -ocamlweb,
-pascal, -scm, and -tex.

Norman recommends using notangle(1) with docstocomments instead of nountangle(1).
(Icon installation only.)

elide patterns
The elide filter removes from the stream any code chunk matching any of the
arguments. Each argument is a pattern in which ? matches any single character and
* matches any sequence of characters.

emptydefn
The emptydefn filter makes an empty definition (<<>>=) an abbreviation for a
continuation of the previous definition.

l2h [-show-unknowns]
The l2h filter converts LaTeX to HTML in documentation chunks. If the
-show-unknowns options is given, unrecognized LaTeX control sequences appear in
bold in the output. l2h uses the LaTeX-generated .toc and .bbl files to help
create table of contents and bibliography. (Icon installation only.)

pipedocs command
The pipedocs filter runs each documentation chunk through an invocation of command,
which may be any Unix command. The Noweb library includes the command h2a, which
uses lynx(1) to convert HTML to ASCII.

xchunks files
The xchunks filter pulls in code chunks from an external source. The files
argument lists one or more noweb files, which are used only for their definitions
of code chunks. Empty chunk definitions in the main document are replaced with the
external definitions of the same name. This filter makes it possible to include
the same code chunks in multiple documents, or even the same code chunks multiple
times in the same document. (Icon installation only.)

PARSERS

       A  parser converts a source file to the noweb pipeline format, interpreting the ``markup''
       in that file.  By default, the tools use the standard noweb markup, but some installations
       may support nuweb markup as well.  Parsers include

       markup Converts standard noweb(1) markup to pipeline format.

       numarkup
              Converts  nuweb(1) markup to noweb pipeline format.  It is not part of the standard
              installation, but it can be found in noweb's contrib/norman directory.

FILES

       All filters and parsers are stored in /usr/lib/noweb

BUGS

       It is possible to tell l2h about new control sequences by putting special TeX comments  in
       one's documentation chunks, but there's no documentation.  Use the source, Luke.

       numarkup  loses  information,  e.g.,  about the proper treatment of tabs.  It also doesn't
       compensate for notangle's newline-removal heuristic, which means results  on  nuweb  files
       may differ subtly from those produced by nuweb.

       Many filters are not available in installations that use Awk instead of Icon.

VERSION

       This man page is from noweb version 2.11b.

AUTHOR

       Norman Ramsey, Harvard University.  Internet address nr@eecs.harvard.edu.
       Noweb home page at http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/noweb.

                                         local 3/28/2001                                 NOWEB(7)