Web2c

for version 7.0

February 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

This document was generated on 8 July 1997 using the texi2html translator version 1.51. Hacked to generate 8.3 filenames by Luis Hernández.