The current help information as it would be printed at the command line.
§1. Running Inweb with -help currently produces the following summary:
inweb: a tool for literate programming Usage: inweb WEB OPTIONS RANGE WEB must be a directory holding a literate program (a 'web') The legal RANGEs are: all: complete web (the default if no TARGETS set) P: all preliminaries 1: Chapter 1 (and so on) A: Appendix A (and so on, up to Appendix O) 3/eg: section with abbreviated name "3/eg" (and so on) You can also, or instead, specify: index: to weave an HTML page indexing the project chapters: to weave all chapters as individual documents sections: ditto with sections -import-from X specify that imported modules are at pathname X -verbose explain what inweb is doing (default is -no-verbose) for locating programming language definitions: -read-language X read language definition from file X -read-languages X read all language definitions in path X -show-languages list programming languages supported by Inweb -test-language X test language X on... -test-language-on X ...the code in the file X for analysing a web: -advance-build increment daily build code for the web -advance-build-file X increment daily build code in file X -catalog same as '-catalogue' -catalogue list the sections in the web -functions catalogue the functions in the web -gitignore X write a .gitignore file for this web and store it in X -makefile X write a makefile for this web and store it in X -platform X use platform X (e.g. 'windows') when making e.g. makefiles -prototype X translate makefile from prototype X -scan scan the web -structures catalogue the structures in the web -write-me X write a read-me file following instructions in file X for weaving a web: -breadcrumb X use the text X as a breadcrumb in overhead navigation -navigation X use the file X as a column of navigation links -open weave then open woven file -weave weave the web into human-readable form -weave-as X set weave pattern to X (default is 'HTML') -weave-into X weave, but into directory X -weave-tag X weave, but only using material tagged as X -weave-to X weave, but to filename X (for single files only) for tangling a web: -ctags-to X tangle, but write Universal Ctags file to X not to 'tags' -no-ctags don't write a Universal Ctags file when tangling (default is -ctags) -tangle tangle the web into machine-compilable form -tangle-to X tangle, but to filename X for dealing with colonies of webs together: -colony X use the file X as a list of webs in this colony -member X use member X from the colony as our web -at X specify that this tool is installed at X -crash intentionally crash on internal errors, for backtracing (default is -no-crash) -fixtime pretend the time is 11 a.m. on 28 March 2016 for testing (default is -no-fixtime) -help print this help information -locale X set locales as 'L=E', L being shell or console, E platform, utf-8 or iso-latin1 -log X write the debugging log to include diagnostics on X -version print out version number
§2. Running Inweb with -show-languages currently produces the following list of programming languages for which support is provided in the standard distribution:
I can see the following programming language definitions: ACME: The ACME assembly language for 6502 and related CPUs Blurb: The Blorb packaging specification language BoxArt: For styling ASCII-art diagrams with boxes and lines C: The C programming language C++: The C++ programming language ConsoleText: For styling command line text in documentation Delia: For defining test recipes in Intest Extracts: For code extracts to be written to a configuration file ILDF: The Inweb Language Definition File format InC: The Inform-tools extension to the C programming language Indoc: The markup syntax for the Indoc documentation tool Inform 6: The C-like interactive fiction language Inform 6 Inform 7: The natural-language based language Inform 7 Inter: The textual form of intermediate Inform code Inter Pipeline: For pipelines of Inform code-generation stages Inweb: The markup language for the Inweb literate programming system None: For programs in languages not yet supported by Inweb PainterOutput: Perl: The scripting language Perl 5 Plain Text: For text files which are not programs Preform: The internal Inform syntax analysis grammar language REPL: REPL output in the form expression, colon, value
It's easy to make new language definitions, and contributions of these are welcome.