9.3 Codify

9.3 Codify

The codify command takes two arguments: an input file and an output file. It

reads each line of the input file and writes a corresponding line to the output file.

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The corresponding line consists of a C macro call containing a string containing

the input line. The command converts all backslashes in input lines to double

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backslashes so as to avoid unwanted interpretations by the C compiler. It also

converts double quotes in the line to backslashed double quotes.

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1 Introduction

Syntax : codify = "codify" s filename s filename

2 Interface

Example: codify header.tex header.c

3 Scanner

The following example demonstrates the transformation.

4 Parser

5 Analyser

Input  Line:

6 Tangle

 \def\par{\leavevmode\endgraf}% A "hack".

7 Weave

Output Line:

8 Shell

 WX("\\def\\par{\\leavevmode\\endgraf}% A \"hack\".");

9 Commands

The codify command was introduced to assist in the development of

10 Glossary

FunnelWeb. It is used to convert longish text files into C code to write them out.

11 References

The C code is then included within the FunnelWeb C program. For example, the

set of TeX definitions that appears at the top of every documentation file was

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codified and inserted into the FunnelWeb code so that FunnelWeb would not

have to look for a file containing the definitions at run time.

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