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The Lollipop Format, first public release, October 1992

Victor Eijkhout

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.

About this release

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.
(And I will be flattered if you actually use Lollipop,
but beware that changes may occur in future versions.)

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.

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.

Share and enjoy!

Victor Eijkhout
Department of Computer Science; University of Tennessee at Knoxville
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