FWEB uses LaTeX to produce its documentation. Plain TeX is no longer supported.
It is not necessary to be very familiar with LaTeX in order to use FWEB effectively. FWEB does complicated things behind the scenes, relieving the programmer of many burdens. If you don’t need complicated mathematics, one needs to know virtually no LaTeX at all in order to document a section of code. And if you do need to typeset math, consider that LaTeX makes this daunting task about as simple as one could hope.
If you’re an FWEB beginner, don’t bother diving into the details of this section until you really need to.
| • Typesetting | Woven output; TeX vs. LaTeX, etc. | |
| • Pretty-printing | Turning ugly input into beautiful output. |