CTAN Release 2025-03-16

index.md

• Separate WEB manual in original form (plus PDF outlines) and changed form (with fixes and additional stuff for TeX Live)
• Comments for special treatment of HiTeX, MetaPost, et al.
• Mild rephrasing

makeall

• Improved shell script format
• Simplified use of SED snippets
• Apply extensive cosmetic changes locally

webman.ch

Split into two parts

• webman-outlines.ch for both variants of the WEB manual
• webman-changes.ch for fixes and additional material for TeX Live

pwebmac.tex

• (kb) Fix spurious whitespace in PDF macros
• Support alphabetisation of Names of Sections (macro \9)

CTAN release 2024-08-12

pwebmac.tex

• New macros by Martin Ruckert (@ruckertm) to improve runtime on index entries
• Internal refinements and restructuring

makeall

• Run makeall with /bin/sh -e
• Add driver module mpost of MetaPost
• Amend HiTeX upstream
• Editor's Note and list of changed sections added (editorsnote.tex)
• Avoid double-dates in major programs (*tex.pdf, ctwill.hnt)
• Restore Metafont logo on title page of MFT with changes
• Fix several PDF bookmarks

webman.ch

• Link to Holon Programming
• Improve French spelling in webman.tex

CTAN release 2024-05-24

• Add main part mp of MetaPost
• Fixes for HiTeX, pdfTeX, MetaPost, Weave, and Twill
• Create XeTeX xdv output
• Use PDF /PageLabels to match page numbers in bookmarks with ToC

CTAN Release 2023-12-03

• general overhaul of the makeall script
• bring PDF/HINT macros together in pwebmac.tex
• new refsort script to sort mini-indexes in twill output
• fix a PDF bug in webman
• document pwebmac.tex in webman

CTAN Release 2023-10-07

This new release

• adds support for (more) valid PDF with LuaTeX (invoke luatex --shell-escape)
• fixes a few 'outline' entries (bookmarks) in GFtoDVI (and possibly other WEB codes)
• fixes a HiTeX warning in its own 'outlines' (which can not be displayed by HintView at this time)

CTAN Release 2023-10-01

This new release

• adds full support for LuaTeX
• adds HiTeX to the PDF and HINT document index

CTAN Release 2022-06-25

This new release

• uses iftex.sty to detect the TeX engine in use
• uses \ifpdf from iftex.sty instead of the internal \ifacro
• fixes a few bugs originating from cwebmac.tex
• produces ‘valid’ PDF with PDFTeX by correctly counting the @<named modules@> listed in the PDF outlines/bookmarks (invoke pdftex --shell-escape)
• generally cleans up the PDF macros

CTAN Release 2022-06-05

This new release

• adapts the boolean HINT macros to the conventions of ifhint.tex in lowercase
• switches makeall back from bash to /bin/sh
• fixes a few typographic issues in weave.web for both the knuth-pdf and knuth-hint packages

CTAN Release 2022-02-05

This new release of the pwebmac package adds full support for Martin Ruckert's HiTeX and its HINT output format.

CTAN Release 2021-11-06

This release of the pwebmac package

• fixes a few bugs in pwebmac.tex and webman.ch
• slightly improves the typography of mf.web and tex.web (also pdftex and xetex)
• un-fixes a few non-bugs in the WEB/FPC stuff