Using webfiles with spidery webs ================================ Spider is a very nice tool that can generates a weave and a tangle program from a description of a language. Unfortunately, the control sequences that are written by spidery weaves are not completely compatible with those output by cweave. Therefore some extra macros are needed for the webfiles package to handle spidery webs. The file "webkernel.tex", which goes together with spider, must therefore be replaced with the version found in this directory. (or patched, if you made changes to it yourself) More unfortunately, some parts of the spidery weave output cannot be handled by webfiles at all, due to small inconsistencies in spider. This can only be fixed by recompiling these weave programs using the changefile "sp-webfiles.ch", found in this directory. Please note also, that the control sequences that are defined in the language specific files "*web.tex" ("ceeweb.tex" in case of ceeweb, etc.) must be usable with both TeX and LaTeX if you want them to work with both formatters. It is also recommended to use safe names for them. (In fact, it is always recommended to use safe names in macro packages, but in case of webs it has been common practice to use very short names like \B, \1, or \ET; that's why I mention it here.) MWEB, the web system I created for the Matlab language, is already equipped for the webfiles package; just take care not to use it with an incompatible "webkernel.tex". december 1997, Mark Potse Medical Physics Department Academic Medical Center Meibergdreef 15 1105 AZ Amsterdam The Netherlands M.Potse@amc.uva.nl $Id: README,v 1.2 1999/12/21 10:23:03 potse Exp $