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REVTeX is the standard macro package used for formatting scientific
papers submitted to the American Physical Society, the American
Institute of Physics, and some European journals. It modifies the
sectioning commands of \documentclass{article} and provides
various other useful macros.
Unfortunately, as of August, 1998, REVTeX is not fully compatible
with LaTeX2e; it must be invoked with
\documentstyle{revtex}, not \documentclass. This is
annoying, because FWEB’s macros in fwebmac.sty default to
\documentclass if they recognize that LaTeX2e is loaded.
To use REVTeX, uncomment the line in fwebmac.sty that says
\useREVTeXtrue. (One cannot say ‘\useREVTeXtrue’ in the
limbo section of one’s web source, because the document class has
already been selected by that time.) You may wish to rename the
resulting file, say to rwebmac.sty, so it can be loaded in place
of the standard fwebmac.sty. To do that, one would use the
command-line option ‘-wrwebmac.sty’ (see -w).
Saying \useREVTeXtrue selects \documentstyle rather than
\documentclass. To implement a standard command such as
\documentstyle[aps,my_macros]{revtex}, use the style-file
(fweb.sty) parameters LaTeX.style and
LaTeX.options, as in
LaTeX.style "revtex" LaTeX.options "aps,my_macros"
Here my_macros.sty would be a user’s macro package loaded in addition to those of REVTeX and FWEB.
REVTeX support is extremely recent. There may be glitches; please report those. In a pinch, if LaTeX stops while processing a REVTeX file produced by FWEAVE, try typing ‘s’ (scroll mode) to force it to continue; you might get usable output.