

                                    DokkeNou

                             Wouter van Oortmerssen

                                   sept '94


Marvelous Introduction
======================

Dokkenou is a tool that enables you to write plain text documents with
certain 'style'-guidelines, and then later convert it to a beautifully
typesetted TeX document automatically. If you don't know what TeX is,
this utility is of little use to you.

even better subsection
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As an example, this document is written in dokkenou-style. If you translate
this with dokkenou from .txt to .tex, you'll see what each feature does:

> 1> dokkenou dokkenou.txt

the result will be a `dokkenou.tex', which can be translated to .dvi the
usual way. Commandline options:

> TEXT/A,TEXFILE,TABWIDTH/K/N,STYLE,A4/S,A4COL/S: 

If `TEXFILE' isn't given, dokkenou automatically replaces the .txt in `TEXT'
into .tex. `TABWIDTH' is important, since dokkenou has to calculate indents
for itemize etc. default is 8. With `STYLE' you can set the TeX `\documentstyle',
and with `A4' and `A4COL' you can set page-size to A4 (with or without columns).

features of dokkenou
********************

* auto-line layout a la TeX, paragraph splits by two linefeeds, heavy splits by
  more than two linefeeds.
* itemize, as demonstated by this feature list. also nested: 
  - even nested
    * sub-nested
    * no big deal
  - if indented more than encapsulating itemize, and starting with `*' or `-'
    in toggle-mode
  - itemize automatically ends if text follows with lower indentation level.
* chapters, sections and subsections underlined with `=====', `-----' and `*****'
  as shown by this text
* verbatim for blocks of text, and inline `verbatim'
  > for n=1 to 10
  >   print n
  > end
* footnotes: A gnu [a wonderful african animal]
* _emphasized_ and *bold*
* usage of TeX special chars without problems: # $ % & ~ _ ^ { }
* title/author/date (3 lines, see top of this text)

