deweb(1) General Commands Manual deweb(1)
NAME
deweb - strips away C & CWEB commands from CWEB sources
SYNOPSIS
deweb [ file1 file2 ... ]
DESCRIPTION
deweb filters away all C & CWEB commands from a CWEB source code. This
leaves only the LaTeX code. This stripped code, in turn, may then be
passed to a suitable syntax checker for LaTeX, like ChkTeX and lacheck,
or spell-checkers like ispell.
The chkweb tool, included in the ChkTeX distribution will do just this;
writing similar scripts should be trivial.
When deweb strips away the C code from your CWEB source, it tries to
preserve line breaks. This means that the error reports from <your
favorite tool> will be correct regarding to line numbers. In most
cases, the column position will also be correct. This significantly
simplifies finding the errors in the LaTeX source (in contrast to the
output from cweave, which output is truly difficult to figure anything
out from).
deweb accepts a list of filenames on the argument line, and will send
its output to stdout. If no filenames are given, it will read from
stdin, acting as a filter. No options are currently accepted.
Macho users may try to pipe the output from deweb directly into LaTeX,
theoretically, this should work. This would ease the debugging of the
LaTeX code significantly, as when LaTeX complains about wrong syntax,
you'll be able to find the erroneous line much more easily. Don't ex-
pect that the output looks very much like the final one, though.
deweb should now understand all correct CWEB opcodes. If it complains
about not understanding a correct opcode, please inform the author.
DISTRIBUTION
Copyright (C) 1996 Jens T. Berger Thielemann
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
ENVIRONMENT
No environment variables are used.
FILES
None.
AUTHOR
Jens T. Berger Thielemann, <jensthi@ifi.uio.no>
SEE ALSO
cweave(1), perl(1), chktex, lacheck(1), ispell(1)
BUGS
Doesn't even compile under Perl versions before perl v5. Unfortunately,
this means that we can't even tell the user why we failed; Perl will
just complain about not being able to compile the regexps.
The program will try to swallow the whole input file at once, instead
of processing it on a line-by-line basis.
7th Edition June 8, 1996 deweb(1)
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