I'm looking into webruby or cweb to write the documentation of my project.
Is there a plugin to eclipse or other gui system?
[Tex/LaTex] Where is CWEB tutorial
cwebdocumentation
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You mention that you're a newcomer to LaTeX. Welcome! It sounds to me that, in order to develop some basic familiarity with LaTeX-based versions of the document building blocks you express interest in, it may be a good idea to start with a solid introductory tutorial into many LaTeX-related matters. Perhaps the best-known such tutorial is Tobi Oetiker et al.'s The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2ε, most recently updated in 2011. [Update Nov. 2020: The document was most recently updated in March 2018.] This document is so well known and so highly regarded that it's been translated into about two dozen languages!
Among the other LaTeX tutorials for beginners that are available online, I can also recommend Nicola Talbot's LaTeX for Complete Novices and Andrew Roberts's Getting to Grips with LaTeX.
The recent books by Marc van Dongen, LaTeX and Friends, Springer, 2012, and Peter Flynn, Formatting Information: An Introduction to Typesetting with LaTeX, Silmaril Consultants, 2011, may also be of interest to you, particularly because they both stress matters of document organization and how to implement them using LaTeX.
Happy LaTeXing!
pgfis a huge toolbox for graphics in TeX.tikzis something built on top of that, with much user-friendlier syntax. Most people usetikzand notpgf; the manual fortikz(andpgfat the same time) is calledpgfmanual, which might be confusing.tikzpictureis a LaTeX environment defined bytikz.
The code you mentioned uses tikz; I'd recommend you to read chapters/sections 1 (basic ideas), 2 (the first tutorial, with examples of (among others) lines and nodes), 15.10 (decorations) and 56 (\foreach) of pgfmanual. Notice also that "snakes" were replaced by "decorations" in newer versions of tikz.
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If you are referring Donald Knuth and Silvio Levy's CWEB system of structured documentation, and you have a TeXLive installation, you can find the CWEB documentation in the
texmf-dist/doc/plain/cwebdirectory in yourtexlivetree.In a standard Linux installation the path is
/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/doc/plain/cweb.There you will find
cwebman.dvi, which you can convert to PDF in the standard way:(You can also try
texdoc cwebbut since there is no PDF it will try to process the DVI directly, which produced errors on my system.)For the
web2csystem, entertexdoc web2c.EDIT:
Dr. Knuth's original WEB system was for Pascal, but he and Silvio Levy converted it to C, producing CWEB, which you can read about in the cwebman manual described above. Norman Ramsey developed the SPIDER system to allow the WEB concept to be ported theoretically to any combination of a programming language and formatting/display language. See http://www.literateprogramming.com/spider.pdf. So one could write a new version for Ruby or another language.
Regarding editor support: Vim, for one, supports syntax highlighting for CWEB.