## NAME

tangle - translate WEB to Pascal

## SYNOPSIS

tangle

webfile [ \fB.web\fP ]

## DESCRIPTION

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

The tangle program converts a *(WB 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 *(WB 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 *(WB must be familiar with both *(TX and Pascal. *(WB 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 *(WB 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 *(WB file, as described in the *(WB 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 *(WB 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, --uppercaseand --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.

## SEE ALSO

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

Donald E. Knuth, The \*(WB System of Structured Documentation .

Donald E. Knuth, Literate Programming , Computer Journal 2797-111, 1984.

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

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

Donald E. Knuth, \*(MF: 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 *(WB 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.

## AUTHORS

*(WB was designed by Donald E. Knuth, based on an earlier system called DOC (implemented by Ignacio Zabala). The tangle and weave programs are themselves written in *(WB. The system was originally ported to Unix at Stanford by Howard Trickey, and at Cornell by Pavel Curtis.