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NAME

       tangle - translate WEB to Pascal

SYNOPSIS

       tangle [options] webfile[.web] [changefile[.ch]]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this
version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.

The tangle program converts a Web source document into a Pascal program that may be
compiled in the usual way with the on-line Pascal compiler (e.g., pc(1)). The output file
is packed into lines of 72 characters or less, with the only concession to readability
being the termination of lines at semicolons when this can be done conveniently.

The Web language allows you to prepare a single document containing all the information
that is needed both to produce a compilable Pascal program and to produce a well-formatted
document describing the program in as much detail as the writer may desire. The user of
Web must be familiar with both TeX and Pascal. Web also provides a relatively simple,
although adequate, macro facility that permits a Pascal program to be written in small
easily-understood modules.

The command line should have either one or two names on it. The first is taken as the Web
file (and .web is added if there is no extension). If there is another name, it is a
change file (and .ch is added if there is no extension). The change file overrides parts
of the Web file, as described in the Web system documentation.

The output files are a Pascal file and a string pool file, whose names are formed by
adding .p and .pool respectively to the root of the Web file name.

OPTIONS

       This version of tangle understands the following options.  Note that some of these options
       may render the output unsuitable for processing by a Pascal compiler.

       --help Print help message and exit.

       --length number
              Compare  only  the  first  number  characters  of  identifiers  when  checking  for
              collisions.  The default is 32, the original tangle used 7.

       --loose
              When checking for  collisions  between  identifiers,  honor  the  settings  of  the
              --lowercase,  --mixedcase,  --uppercase,  and  --underline  options.  This  is  the
              default.

       --lowercase
              Convert all identifiers to lowercase.

       --mixedcase
              Retain the case of identifiers.  This is the default.

       --strict
              When checking for collisions between identifiers, strip underlines and convert  all
              identifiers to uppercase first.

       --underline
              Retain underlines (also known as underscores) in identifiers.

       --uppercase
              Convert  all  identifiers  to  uppercase.   This  is  the behaviour of the original
              tangle.

       --version
              Print version information and exit.

ENVIRONMENT

       The environment variable WEBINPUTS is used to search for the input files,  or  the  system
       default if WEBINPUTS is not set.  See tex(1) for the details of the searching.

       pc(1), pxp(1) (for formatting tangle output when debugging), tex(1).

       Donald E. Knuth, The Web System of Structured Documentation.

       Donald E. Knuth, Literate Programming, Computer Journal 27, 97-111, 1984.

       Wayne Sewell, Weaving a Program, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989, ISBN 0-442-31946-0.

       Donald  E.  Knuth,  TeX  for  nroff:  The Program (Volume B of Computers and Typesetting),
       Addison-Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-13437-3.

       Donald E. Knuth, Metafont: The Program (Volume D of Computers and  Typesetting),  Addison-
       Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-13438-1.

       These last two are by far the largest extant examples of Web programs.

       There  is  an  active  Internet electronic mail discussion list on the subject of literate
       programming; send a subscription request to litprog-request@shsu.edu to join.

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