[tex-eplain] [solved] Re: Inputting xeplain.tex and the other source files

[Rodolfo Medina]

Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> writes:

>     To study the macros with the help of comments and explanations.
>
> Fair enough.  I didn't try it, but if you change the line in
> util/mkdist-merge:
> commentre='^ *%([^%]|$)'
> to something that never matches, like
> commentre='^junkyfoobar'
>
> And rerun mkdist-merge, I think the comments will end up staying in the
> combined eplain.tex file.  -k

It does so, in fact.  It produces though the following output:

 No version number, using xx!

Apart from that, it seems to be as you said.  Fantastic.  Thanks.

Cheers,

Rodolfo