The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org.

Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: paresse Author's name: Yvon Henel Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/paresse Summary description: A means of typing greek letters with an active character §, e.g. §a is equivalent to ensuremath{alpha} License type: lppl

Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2, 50th anniversary edition changes: 1/ deleting of an unused macro 2/ rewriting and repackaging of the documentation 3/ providing of a tds-compliant archive

This package provides a means of typing easily greek letters with the least possible effort ;) It takes care only of the letters which have a macro name as alpha or Omega. It makes the character § active.

Documentation in English and in French provided ----------------------------------------------------------------------

This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/paresse . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/paresse (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 .