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- From: tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins)
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- Subject: latex for windows
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 18:38:29 +0000
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- In article <355@phavl.UUCP> rob writes:
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- > I'm not finding the right Readme, Faq, etc. files. So:
-
- There isn't currently a news group for Literate programming. At one time
- there were postings in comp.text.tex but the volume of TeX material swamped
- it. But, of course, you NEED TeX for WEB; and you need WEB for TeX!
-
- > I have heard stray bits about cweb, literate programming. There are web
- > versions suitable for c++ (funnelweb & spiderweb). My understanding is
- > that a web is a conceptual advancement upon the folding editor.
-
- There is a mailing list LitProg@SHSU.EDU which you ought to join.
-
- > This would be a shoestring project, i.e. a book or two & ftp'able files.
-
- For a book I'd recommend "Weaving a Program: Literate Programming in WEB"
- by Wayne Sewell. Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold ISBN 0-442-31946-0.
-
- For ftp check out SHSU.edu. They have everything, and I mean EVERYTHING,
- related to web (and TeX).
-
- > What would I need to run *web on a Sys V rel. 3.2 (386ix) system?
-
- There should be a version there for your hardware. The bootstrap is
- provided in TANGLEd form.
-
- > Software? -- is tex required, X, etc?
-
- TeX yes, X no. Someone at York University wrote a version of WEB for C and
- troff after they heard Knuth at that London meeting. The functionality was
- similar but it is now seen to be out of the mainstream of WEB systems.
-
- > Difficulty level to get this up?
-
- I bootstrapped WEB on my 386DX (running MSDOS) with almost no problem. I
- got the necessary files from SHSU.EDU! I took the same sources and
- re-compiled them on my employers VAX (running VMS). [These are the WEB
- sources; I've yet to get a VMS version of TeX installed---but will RSN.]
-
- > Hardware?
-
- For the output device I use an Epson 9-pin dot-matrix printer! Produces
- acceptable quality.
-
- > Recommended reading?
-
- THE item of reading is Knuth's paper on Literate Programming. This was
- published by the British Computer Society in the "Computer Journal" in
- 1984. Track down one of the SIGPLAN Notices for 1991 which has a full
- bibliography on style. Again Sewell's book---this also has the complete
- sources for the WEAVE and TANGLE processors.
-
- Regards, Trevor.
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