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- From: eijkhout@cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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- Subject: Lollipop v0.93 update
- Date: 17 Nov 92 20:36:33 GMT
- Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
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- Update announcement for Lollipop TeX.
-
- I've just put a .tar.Z file and a (Macintosh) .hqx file
- of Lollipop v0.93 on cs.utk.edu in /pub/eijkhout/tex.
- This will be the last official update until the end of the
- year. This update incorporates most of the comments of
- users so far. There may be occasional minor updates before
- the end of the year, but these will upward compatible, and
- therefore go unannounced.
-
- Some global information about Lollipop TeX follows below the signature.
-
- Victor Eijkhout
- Department of Computer Science; University of Tennessee at Knoxville
- 104 Ayres Hall; 1403 Circle Dr.; Knoxville TN 37996-1301
- phone: +1 615 974 8298 (secretary 8295; fax 8296); home +1 615 558 3069
- Support the League for Programming Freedom! lpf@uunet.uu.net
-
- What is Lollipop?
-
- The Lollipop format tries to bridge the gap between the fact
- that in TeX anything is programmable, and the fact that doing so is
- too hard for the people such as typographers,
- who know actually what to program. Or even for seasoned programmers.
-
- Lollipop is a macro package that gives the user powerful
- tools for programming macros for lists, headings, output routines
- and a number of other things. The Lollipop macros take the specifications
- for a macro, and then construct that macro.
-
- The status of Lollipop
-
- Lollipop is not finished, but it is already quite powerful.
- (It has been used to typeset my book 'TeX by Topic', for instance.)
- I suggest that anyone who is interested format the manual
- and have a look at the examples in it. They document
- the current power of Lollipop (really: all examples,
- including of output routines, are formatted on the fly).
-
- Since Lollipop is still under development I will be very
- accessible for questions, bug reports and suggestions.
- Email preferred: eijkhout@cs.utk.edu.
-
- Lollipop can be ftp'ed from the directory /pub/eijkhout/tex
- on cs.utk.edu (log in as 'anonymous') where it is stored
- as 'lollipop.tar.Z'. Uncompress and 'tar -fx' it.
- The tar file unpacks itself to a subdirectory ./Lollipop-xyz
- where 'xyz' is the current version.
-
- Like a lot of TeXware, Lollipop is free. Make and give away
- all the copies that you want. Just don't ask money for it,
- other than reasonable expenses for copying discs or the manual.
-
- Share and enjoy!
-
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