🚀 go-pugleaf

	"Nobody can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish."

I already mailed this announcement to gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu, but didn't get
any response, that's why I try it this way...
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Dear GNUs:

I'd like to propose another GNU project, I'm currently working on with an
international club of TeXperts and programmers.

Namely:
*       Joerg Heitkoetter (-joke)               Coordinator
*       Bernd Raichle (DANTE, German TUG)       LaTeX
*       George V Reilly (Brown Univ.)           WEBish tgrind
        Joan Masso (Espagna)                    VMS port
        Norbert Kiesel  (Germany)               C++2LaTeX
        Jerry Leichter (USA)                    VMS, tgrind
	Piet van Oostrum (Netherlands)		fancyheadings.sty

* indicates currently active members, the others provided expertise


As far as I know, Len Tower should know my name, because, I worked with
Richard Murphey (Mr. GNU Graphics) to refine his documentation for it's
0.18 release (but then he wanted to get a job at Exxon and we lost
contact, maybe someone in this group knows something more... :-)

I hope to alpha release:

        "Pretty! -- Utilities for Typesetting Formal Languages"

during the next weeks...

It contains LaGRiND, which is based on Van Jacobsen's tgrind, a TeX
version of Berkeley's vgrind ('85), update by Jerry Leichter's ('88),
and some ideas developed by George's group at Brown University.
It will make *any* tgrind version obsolete, because you can emulate the
older versions by switch.

Pretty! (the ! belongs the the logo) is a collection of tools of the
following kind:

        1. formatters (a la GNU indent)
        2. typesetters (LaGRiND, Modula2LaTeX, C++2LaTeX)
        3. low level text processing utilities (expand/unexpand)

Pretty! was much inspired by suite's like Rich Murphey's GNU Graphics, and
Jef Poskanzer's PBM+. I hope Pretty! will be the a kind of clearing house
for this special usage of LaTeX/TeX usage. We'll see.

So here are some questions:

        a. Would you appretiate a GNU Pretty! (else we'll drop the GNU) ?
        b. I heard of ``config'' scripts GNU software *must* have, correct?
           How?
        c. Is GNU going to change it's distribution scheme? I heard that
           because of software patents in my country, GNU might restrict
           distribution. If this leads to the funny situation, that I as
           the "inventor" of a project cannot get it back from GNU because
           of the restrictions, I'll promote my own, European FSF
           (thought of calling it MAGPIE :-).        ************

Thanx for a quick answer on the issues above.
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BTW  MAGPIE is beginning to become more than an idea...stay tuned...interested
people should contact the author for the first issue of "The MAGPIE Feather"
the going-to-be newsletter of the MAGPIE folks.
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So long

      -joke

--
Joerg Heitkoetter
Systems Analysis Group
University of Dortmund, Germany
(heitkoet@gorbi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de).