CTAN update: Lollipop
Date: April 9, 2014 3:11:59 PM CEST
the daemon reports a resurrection of one of the more attractive packages
from the "olden days":
> Name of contribution: Lollipop
> Author's name: Victor Eijkhout and Vafa Khalighi
> Package version: 0.98
> Location on CTAN: macros/lollipop/
> Summary description: TeX made easy
> License type: gpl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> Lollipop is TeX made easy. Lollipop is a macro package that functions
> as a toolbox for writing TeX macros. Its main aim is 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.
>
> 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.
>
> This is an initial release updating/organizing old files and
> generating various formats to be used with different engines.
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>
> Announcement required: Yes
>
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/Lollipop
> or they may browse the package directory at
>
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/lollipop/
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
lollipop – TeX made easy
Lollipop is “TeX made easy” — it is a macro package that functions
as a toolbox for writing TeX macros. Its main aim is 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. The aim is that such a task could be accomplished by
someone with only a very basic training in TeX programming.
Thus, Lollipop aims to make structured text formatting available
in environments where typical users would switch to WYSIWYG
packages for the freedom that such a mechanism offers.
In addition, development of support for Lollipop documents written
in RTL languages (such as Persian) is underway.
Package | lollipop |
Version | 1.07 |
Copyright | 1992, 1993 Victor Eijkhout 2014–2016 Vafa Khalighi
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Maintainer | bidi-tex GitHub Organisation Vafa Khalighi Victor Eijkhout (inactive)
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