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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/nicetext/NNOUNCE.TXT b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/nicetext/NNOUNCE.TXT new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..4d3c83272a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/nicetext/NNOUNCE.TXT @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +'fifinddo' & 'makedoc' -- string substitution and "txt->TeX" by LaTeX +====================================================================== +The NICETEXT bundle offers ``minimal'' markup syntax for restricted +kinds of text: There should not be much more characters typed than +printed! (though keeping LaTeX quality.) No more backslashes, +technical terms, and curly braces! (so clumsy on PC keyboards) ... + +Main focus now is easy *documentation of LaTeX packages*. +Preprocessing by 'Perl' or so is replaced by TeX macros +(reviving/generalizing the 'docstrip' idea). + +'fifinddo.sty' provides setup for txt -> TeX preprocessing macros +including *expandable* sequences of safe, correct string substitions. +'fifinddo.pdf' mathematically characterizes wrong substring +detection by 'substr.sty' as well as by LaTeX's internal `\in@'. + +There is a script language for detecting package code and +documentation and for supplying plain text with typographical markup +('makedoc.sty', 'mdcorr.cfg'). +______________________________________________________________________ +CATALOGUE: These packages might be compared with: +- easylatex, txt2latex, txt2tex + (typographical and TeX input enhancement); +- doc, gmdoc, lineno (\DocInput); +- substr, datatool, xstring, stringstrings, makematch, ... (parsing) |