diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a876aaf..1fec3c2 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -12,22 +12,26 @@ output; all these macros can only be used with a specific “TeX engine” each. The present `pwebmac` package integrates these three WEB macro files similar to `cwebmac.tex` in Silvio Levy's and Don Knuth's [CWEB](https://ctan.org/pkg/cweb) system, so `pwebmac.tex` can be used with -“plain TeX,” “pdfTeX,” and “XeTeX” alike. +“plain TeX,” “pdfTeX,” and “XeTeX” alike. And it adds full support for Martin +Ruckert's “[HiTeX](https://ctan.org/pkg/hitex)” engine and its `HINT` output +format. -Its initial application is the production of PDF files for all major WEB -programs for “TeX and friends” as distributed in +Its initial application is the production of PDF and HINT files for all major +WEB programs for “TeX and friends” as distributed in [TeX Live](https://www.tug.org/texlive). For this purpose, the shell script `makeall` was whipped together; it provides various commandline options and works around several “quirks” in the WEB sources. The resulting collection -of PDF documents can be browsed in the `knuth-pdf` package. +of PDF documents can be browsed in the `knuth-pdf` package amd the collection +of HINT documents are available in the `knuth-hint` package. WEB programmers who want to use `pwebmac.tex` instead of the default `webmac.tex` in their programs have to change the first line in the TeX file created by `weave`. From there, all depends on the “TeX engine” you use: “plain TeX” by default creates DVI output, “plain TeX” with the invocation `tex "\let\pdf+\input…"`, `pdftex`, and `xetex` create PDF output with -clickable links and bookmarks (depending on your PDF viewer). +clickable links and bookmarks (depending on your PDF viewer), and `hitex` +creates HINT output that can be viewed with the `hintview` program. The `pwebmac` package is free software and may be used without constraints. -This is version “4.6.4” of the `pwebmac` package — 2021-11-06, Andreas Scherer. +This is version “4.7” of the `pwebmac` package — 2022-02-05, Andreas Scherer.