4 RUNNING FWEB

FWEB has a UNIX-style command-line syntax. There are many command-line options, but few or none of these are necessary for standard appplications. Proceed in blissful ignorance until you need to do something tricky, then scan the list of options to see if they can help.

Commonly-used command-line options can be placed into the initialization file .fweb (see Options) that resides in one’s home directory.

A style file (patterned after the utility makeindex; see Style) can be associated with each manuscript or collection of related manuscripts in order to customize their appearance. This file is read after the command-line options are processed, except that the ‘-p’ option gets special treatment; see -p.