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+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label lollipop</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>What is Lollipop?</h3>
+<p/>Lollipop is a macro package written by Victor Eijkhout; it was used in
+the production of his book &ldquo;<em>TeX by Topic</em>&rdquo; (see
+<a href="FAQ-ol-books.html">(La)TeX Tutorials</a>). The manual says of
+it:
+<blockquote>
+ Lollipop is &lsquo;TeX made easy&rsquo;. Lollipop is a macro package that
+ functions as a toolbox for writing TeX macros. It was my
+ intention to make macro writing so easy that implementing a fully
+ new layout in TeX would become a matter of less than an hour for
+ an average document, and that it would be a task that could be
+ accomplished by someone with only a very basic training in TeX
+ programming.
+<p/> Lollipop is an attempt to make structured text formatting available
+ for environments where previously only WYSIWYG packages could be
+ used because adapting the layout is so much more easy with them than
+ with traditional TeX macro packages.
+</blockquote><p>
+<p/>The manual goes on to talk of ambitions to &ldquo;capture some of the
+LaTeX market share&rdquo;; it&rsquo;s a very witty package, but little sign of
+
+it taking over from LaTeX is detectable...
+An article about Lollipop appeared in <i>TUGboat</i> 13(3).
+<dl>
+<dt><tt><i>Lollipop distribution</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/lollipop.zip">macros/lollipop</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/lollipop.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/lollipop/">browse</a>)
+</dl>
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=lollipop">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=lollipop</a>
+</body>