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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label lollipop</title>
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<h3>What is Lollipop?</h3>
<p/>Lollipop is a macro package written by Victor Eijkhout; it was used in
the production of his book “<em>TeX by Topic</em>” (see
<a href="FAQ-ol-books.html">(La)TeX Tutorials</a>). The manual says of
it:
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Lollipop is ‘TeX made easy’. 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.
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<p/>The manual goes on to talk of ambitions to “capture some of the
LaTeX market share”; it’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).
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<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>)
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<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>
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