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The unisugar package
v 0.91

The package requires an TeX-alike system that uses Unicode input 
in a native way: current examples are XeTeX and LuaTeX.

This package provides syntactic sugar for LaTeX commands, using selected 
Unicode characters: Certain Unicode characters can be used as shorthand for 
popular LaTeX commands, e.g., a Unicode bullet can be used instead of a \item,
and a pilcrow can be used instead paragraph.

The intent is to minimize the use of English left-to-right charactes in 
documents whose main language is written right-to-left, since mixing characters
of different directionality confuses both text editors and human beings.

Using this package,  you may find yourself typing a bit less, 
provided you can configure your text editor or keyboard driver to 
generate the handful of Unicode characters defined by this package.
More importantly, the package is useful in defining macros whose name
is composed of right-to-left characters and in minimizing mixed 
directionality text in right-to-left documents.

The author is Yossi Gil

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Yossi Gil
yogi@cs.technion.ac.il

It may be distributed and/or modified 
under the LaTeX Project Public License,
version 1.3c or higher (your choice). The latest version of
this license is at: http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

This work is author-maintained(as per LPPL maintenance status)
by Yossi Gil.