TEXEXPAND
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texexpand - expand input and include statements in a TeX file
General translation mechanism:
The main program latex2html calls texexpand with the document name in order to expand some of its input and include statements, here also called `merging', and to write a list of sensitized style, class, input, or include file names. When texexpand has finished, all is contained in one file, TMP_foo. (assumed foo.tex is the name of the document to translate).
In this version, texexpand cares for following environments that may span include files / section boundaries: a) begin{comment} b) %begin{comment} c) begin{any} introduced with excludecomment d) %begin{any} e) begin{verbatim} f) begin{latexonly} g) %begin{latexonly}
e) - g) prevent texexpand from expanding input files, but the environment content goes fully into the output file.
Together with each merging of input etc. there are so-called
texexpand markers accompanying the boundary.
When latex2html reads in the output file, it uses these markers to write each part to a separate file, and process them further.
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1. %begin{latexonly} and %end{latexonly} have to be on a separate line. Anything between these tags (including the tags) is discarded.
2. begin{latexonly} and end{latexonly} have to be on a separate line. Anything between these tags (including the tags) is not expanded.
3. [%?begin{
4. begin{verbatim/verbatim*} and end{verbatim/verbatim*} have to be on a separate line. Anything between these tags (including the tags) is not expanded.
5. The scope of any such tags may extend over several files. The opening tag for latexonly may occur on a different include level than the closing tag. The opening tag for verbatim/
6. Warnings are printed when the document has been parsed and open tags remain.
7. When in a ``to exclude ANY command except the corresponding closing tag. There cannot be any nested constructions. This behaviour is identical to that of LaTeX.
8. begin{latexonly},end{latexonly} may be nested, whereas %begin{latexonly},%end{latexonly} may not be nested.
9. A ``% tag cannot close a `` tag, and vice versa.
10. Every \document(classstyle), usepackage, input and include command has to be on a separate line.
11. Everything behind a `%' that isn't preceded by a `' is regarded as a comment, i.e. it is printed but not interpreted.
12. If any command listed in 10. is preceded by an occurence of `verb' or `latex' then it is NOT interpreted. This crashes on lines like this: blah blah verb+foo foo+ input{bar} % bar won't be loaded!
13. Packages provided via usepackage are handled the same way as `options' in \document(classstyle), i.e. they are included when -auto_exclude is off, the package isn't in @dont_include * OR * the package is in @do_include (new). They are added to the style file together with their options if the file itself hasn't been merged. documentclass[options?{class} searches for every option.clo, documentstyle[options?{style} searches for every option.sty. usepackage[options?{packages} searches for every package.sty.
14. Each texinputs directory is searched for input files/styles. If it ends in `//', the whole subdirectory tree is searched.
15. input / include merge the given file (if found under the given name or with .tex extension) if its basename is in @do_include or if it isn't in @dont_include or if the given filename doesn't end in .sty/.clo/.cls when -auto_exclude is set.
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Recognizes documentclass, documentstyle, usepackage,
%begin{latexonly}...%end{latexonly}, begin{latexonly}...end{latexonly}, input, include, verb, latex endinput, end{document} includecomment, excludecomment begin{ %begin{ %end{
Include and parse a file. This routine is recursive, see also
Two global flags control the states of texexpand. o $active is true if we should interprete the lines to expand files, check for packages, etc. o $mute is true if we should prevent the lines from going into the out file.
We have three general states of texexpand: 1) interprete the lines and pass them to the out file This is the normal case. Corresponding: $active true, $mute false
2) interprete minimal and suppress them
This is when parsing inside a comment environment, which also would retain its body from LaTeX. =
3) interprete minimal and pass the lines to the out file
This is inside a verbatim or latexonly environment. The line of course must be at least interpreted to determine the closing tag. = Any environment may extend over several include files. Any environement except verbatim and latexonly may have its opening or closing tag on different input levels. The comment and verbatim environments cannot be nested, as is with LaTeX. We must at least parse verbatim/comment environments in latexonly environments, to catch fake latexonly tags.
The work scheme: Five functions influence texexpand's behavior. o $active and $mute (see above). It calls
o $active and $mute. Regarding to inputinclude, \document(classstyle), and the functions ''
files are enabled or disabled for merging (via TEXE_DO_INCLUDE or TEXE_DONT_INCLUDE). Any file that is to include will be `merged' into the current file, i.e. the function
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Bugs: o Since the latexonly environment is not parsed, its contents might introduce environments which are not recognized.
inside an input file.
would immediately desintegrate into a logic cloud.
Notes:
`expand' of the regression test suite in the developers' module of the l2h repository.
translate a segmented document not in segments but in a whole (for testing, say). We enable this by recognizing the segment command in $segmentfile. On how to segment a document you are best guided by section ``Document Segmentation'' of the LaTeX2HTML manual.
This utility is automatically configured and built to work on the local setup. If this setup changes (e.g. some of the external commands are moved), the script has be be reconfigured.
Based on texexpand by Robert Thau, MIT AI lab, including modifications by
Franz Vojik
One page links to texexpand(1):
