Control tokens like \4 in CWEB

[Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute)]

On 16/07/2022 02:24, Daniel Wyckoff wrote:
> I see code like @t\4@> a lot in mf.web and elsewhere, and seem to 
> recall it has something to do with inlining code or something.  The 
> CWEB manual doesn't tell me much, and I was wondering what \1-\9 do 
> and what a control token is?

I don't know what \4 does, Daniel, nor \2 which also appears, but the 
answer will probably lie somewhere in tangle.web, weave.web, webman.tex 
or webmac.web.  CWEB doesn't really come into the equation.

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/Philip Taylor/

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