CTAN has a new package: nicetext -- wiki.sty, niceverb.sty (carnival edition)
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Tue Feb 24 22:28:02 CET 2009
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 Uwe Lück submitted the new package
nicetext
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/nicetext/
Summary description: ``minimal'' markup for simple text (Wikipedia style) and documentation
License type: lppl
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The NICETEXT bundle offers ``minimal'' markup syntax for rather
simple kinds of text. The code you type should show little more
characters than are printed, though you get LaTeX quality. We try
to do away with backslashes, technical terms, and curly braces,
which (a.o.) may cause musculoskeletal damages at PC keyboards
<optional arghh>.
'wiki.sty' addresses general kinds of texts. 'niceverb.sty' is
made for documenting LaTeX packages. 'niceverb.sty' especially
offers [almost-]WYSIWIG for meta-variables (macro arguments) and
for referring to commands (and their syntax) in footnotes, section
titles etc. E.g., to typeset the syntax description
\foo[<opt-arg>]{<mand-arg>}
you just type
\foo[<opt-arg>]{<mand-arg>}
!-)
One source of inspiration is the markup syntax that is used in
editing Wikipedia pages. The package 'wiki.sty' of the bundle
offers a very similar syntax as a LaTeX front-end. It suffices for
italics, boldface, sectioning, and certain list-like environments.
This is also similar to 'easylatex',
http.//www.ctan.org/pkg/easylatex
which is more powerful and uses Perl. 'wiki.sty', by contrast, is
just a LaTeX package, working on any TeX installation.
'niceverb' is not ready in two essential respects, but I thought
it should be released in time for German Carnival (read on in README)
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/nicetext/
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=nicetext
(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 .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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