Web2c

for version 7.2

November 1997

This document describes how to install and use the programs in the Web2c implementation of the TeX system, especially for Unix systems. It corresponds to Web2c version 7.2, released in November 1997.

• Introduction
• Installation
  • configure options
  • Compile-time options
  • Additional targets
  • Trip, trap, and mptrap: Torture tests
  • Runtime options
• Commonalities
  • Option conventions
  • Common options
  • Path searching
  • Output file location
  • Three programs: Metafont, MetaPost, and TeX
    • Initial and virgin
      • Preloaded executables
    • Memory dumps
      • Creating memory dumps
      • Determining the memory dump to use
      • Hardware and memory dumps
    • Editor invocation
    • \input filenames
• TeX: Typesetting
  • tex invocation
  • initex invocation
  • virtex invocation
  • Formats
  • Languages and hyphenation
    • MLTeX: Multi-lingual TeX
      • \charsubdef: Character substitutions
      • \tracingcharsubdef: Substitution diagnostics
    • Patgen: Creating hyphenation patterns
  • IPC and TeX
  • TeX extensions
• Metafont: Creating typeface families
  • mf invocation
  • inimf invocation
  • virmf invocation
  • Modes: Device definitions for Metafont
  • Online Metafont graphics
  • GFtoDVI: Character proofs of fonts
  • MFT: Prettyprinting Metafont source
• MetaPost: Creating technical illustrations
  • mpost invocation
  • inimpost invocation
  • virmpost invocation
  • MakeMPX: Support MetaPost labels
  • DVItoMP: DVI to MPX conversion
  • DMP: Ditroff to MPX conversion
  • MPto: Extract labels from MetaPost input
  • Newer: Compare file modification times
• BibTeX: Bibliographies
  • BibTeX invocation
  • Basic BibTeX style files
• WEB: Literate programming
  • Tangle: Translate WEB to Pascal
  • Weave: Translate WEB to TeX
  • Pooltype: Display WEB pool files
• DVI utilities
  • DVIcopy: Canonicalize virtual font references
  • DVItype: Plain text transliteration of DVI files
    • DVItype output example
• Font utilities
  • Font file formats
  • GFtoPK: Generic to packed font conversion
  • PKtoGF: Packed to generic font conversion
  • PKtype: Plain text transliteration of packed fonts
  • GFtype: Plain text transliteration of generic fonts
  • TFtoPL: TeX font metric to property list conversion
  • PLtoTF: Property list to TeX font metric conversion
  • VFtoVP: Virtual font to virtual property lists
  • VPtoVF: Virtual property lists to virtual font
  • Font utilities available elsewhere
• Legalisms
• References
• Index

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