New CTAN package: interpreter

the daemon popped up while i was in the swing of "real work": > The following information was provided by the package's contributor. > > Name of contribution: interpreter > Author's name: Paul Isambert > Location on CTAN: macros/plain > Summary description: Translates input files on the fly. > License type: lppl > > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Interpreter is a package for the LuaTeX engine which preprocesses > input files on the fly (it isn't an external program). > > Users define Lua regular expressions to search for patterns and modify > input lines (or entire paragraphs) accordingly before TeX reads the > material. The main goal is to type documents in a given language > (e.g. some lightweight markup language) and turn them into proper > Tex. > > The source of the documentation is typed in such a lightweight > language and is thus easily readable in a text editor (the PDF file is > also available, of course); the transformation to TeX syntax via > Interpreter's functions is explained in the documentation itself. > > Interpreter works for plain TeX and LaTeX, but not ConTeXt. thanks for the upload; i have installed the files, and written an entry for the catalogue repository. > Users may view the package catalogue entry at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/interpreter.html > or they may browse the package directory at > http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/luatex/generic/interpreter/ The catalogue entry on the web will first appear overnight tonight. Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team