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