TIE(1)

💖 NAME 💖

tie — bestie, this one merges or applies WEB change files. That's the whole vibe. ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tie -c|-m outputfile masterfile changefile...

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so tie is the program you call when you've got multiple change files hanging around and the WEB system for literate programming is like "girl, I can only handle so many." The WEB programs let you apply patches to a source file (that's your masterfile) using a bunch of change files — and honestly, often only a single change file is allowed, which is so limiting of them. 🙄

Here's where tie comes in and eats: it can either merge up to 32 change files into a single one, or apply the changes straight to the masterfile to create a brand new one. Iconic, honestly.

And where does the result go? Into outputfile — whether that's your shiny new change file or your freshly patched master file. No cap. 💅

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -c — creates a single change file out of the changefiles you handed over. Merge era. 🎀
• -m — creates a new master file by applying the changefiles you gave it. Patch era. 🔥

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

The environment variable WEBINPUTS is what gets used to search for the input files — or, if WEBINPUTS isn't set, you just get the system default. It's giving "we'll figure it out." 🫶

Wanna know the details of all that searching? Go see tex(1), bestie, it explains the whole thing.

And listen — if you're worried about beefing with other programs that also use the WEBINPUTS environment, you can be extra specific and use WEBINPUTS_tie for special requirements in TIE. Main character energy: specify your own variable. 👑

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

web(1), ctie(1), cweb(1).

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Klaus Guntermann, TH Darmstadt, Institut f. Theoretische Informatik.

Man page by Joachim Schnitter, TH Darmstadt, Phys. Chemie I.

Maintained as part of TeX Live. 🧚

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And that's the whole page, bestie — brought to you by Web2C 2025, dated 30 August 2022. Stan the manual writers fr fr. 💖✨🎀🦋