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\title{DokkeNou}
\author{Wouter van Oortmerssen}
\date{sept '94}
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\section{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.

\subsection{even better subsection}
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:

\begin{verbatim}
 1> dokkenou dokkenou.txt
\end{verbatim}

the result will be a \verb|dokkenou.tex|, which can be translated to .dvi the
usual way. Commandline options:

\begin{verbatim}
 TEXT/A,TEXFILE,TABWIDTH/K/N,STYLE,A4/S,A4COL/S: 
\end{verbatim}

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

\subsubsection{features of dokkenou}

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

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