On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 Uwe Lück submitted an update to the

nicetext package.

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nicetext/ Summary description: string substitution and txt->TeX by LaTeX (documenting packages) License type: lppl

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The NICETEXT bundle offers ``minimal'' markup syntax for restricted kinds of text: There should not be much more characters typed than printed! (though keeping LaTeX quality.) No more backslashes, technical terms, and curly braces! (so clumsy on PC keyboards) ...

Main focus now is easy *documentation of LaTeX packages*. Preprocessing by 'Perl' or so is replaced by TeX macros (reviving/generalizing the 'docstrip' idea).

'fifinddo.sty' provides setup for txt -> TeX preprocessing macros including *expandable* sequences of safe, correct string substitions. 'fifinddo.pdf' mathematically characterizes wrong substring detection by 'substr.sty' as well as by LaTeX's internal `in@'.

There is a script language for detecting package code and documentation and for supplying plain text with typographical markup ('makedoc.sty', 'mdcorr.cfg').

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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf