CTAN update: nicetext
Date: March 30, 2010 4:27:08 PM CEST
This should be at your local mirror within a day.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: nicetext bundle
Version number: release 0.4
Author's name: Uwe Lück
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nicetext
Summary description: txt to TeX processing of third-party package documentations: Step 2
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
New with release 0.4: * Additionally to the `%% ' commenting style (allowing "commenting out") the usual `% ' commenting style is supported -- applied to packages by Donald Arseneau, see abstract in `arseneau.pdf'. * Extended formatting of Harald Harder's `substr.sty' through specific preprocessing replacements (\MakeDocCorrectHook) -- see abstract in `substr.pdf'. * Setup of \MakeDocCorrectHook (txt to TeX) easier with \SetPatternCodes, \ResetPatternCodes, \SetCorrectHookJob, \SetCorrectHookJobLast
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nicetext . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/nicetext (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
New with release 0.4: * Additionally to the `%% ' commenting style (allowing "commenting out") the usual `% ' commenting style is supported -- applied to packages by Donald Arseneau, see abstract in `arseneau.pdf'. * Extended formatting of Harald Harder's `substr.sty' through specific preprocessing replacements (\MakeDocCorrectHook) -- see abstract in `substr.pdf'. * Setup of \MakeDocCorrectHook (txt to TeX) easier with \SetPatternCodes, \ResetPatternCodes, \SetCorrectHookJob, \SetCorrectHookJobLast
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/nicetext . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/nicetext (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
nicetext – Minimal markup for simple text (Wikipedia style) and documentation
The bundle offers “minimal” markup syntax for various simple kinds of text. The user will typically involve little more than is printed, and will still get LaTeX quality.
The bundle provides four packages:
- wiki addresses general texts, marked up in the simple style used on Wikipedia;
- niceverb is yet another means of documenting LaTeX packages: it offers syntax-aware typesetting of meta-variables (macro arguments) and for referring to commands (and their syntax) in footnotes, section titles etc.;
- fifinddo aims to parse plain text or (La)TeX files using TeX, and to write the results to an external file; the package is used by another member of the bundle:
- makedoc, which provides the means to produce typeset documentation direct from package files.
| Package | nicetext |
| Version | r0.67 |
| Maintainer | Uwe Lück (deceased) |