The asciilist Package

Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Richard Grewe

Released under the LaTeX Project Public License version 1.2 or later

Purpose

This package provides the environments AsciiList and AsciiDocList, which enable quickly typesetting nested lists in LaTeX without having to type individual item macros or opening/closing list environments. The package provides auxiliary functionality for loading such lists from files and provides macros for configuring the use of the list environments and the appearance of the typeset results.

Availability

The asciilist package is on CTAN, where you can also find the documentation, as well as on github. Since November 2015, asciilist is part of TeX Live (package texlive-latex-extra) and is included in MiKTeX.

Manual Installation

The asciilist package comes with (at least) the following files

• asciilist.ins
• asciilist.dtx
• README.md

and possibly also with

• Makefile
• asciilist.pdf (generated from asciilist.dtx)
• asciilist.sty (generated from asciilist.dtx)

To install the asciilist package, you additionally need

• docstrip.tex

To build the package (asciilist.sty), run one of the following

    latex asciilist.ins
    make package (needs Makefile)

Put the resulting asciilist.sty somewhere where LaTeX can find it. Read the documentation of your LaTeX system to find out where this might be.

Building Documentation

To build the documentation of the asciilist package, you additionally need

• ltxdoc.cls
• idxlayout.sty
• xcolor.sty
• showexpl.sty
• paralist.sty
• trimspaces.sty
• etoolbox.sty
• hypdoc.sty
• makeindex
• pdflatex

To build the documentation (asciilist.pdf), either run

    make docs

or the following sequence of commands

    pdflatex asciilist.dtx
    makeindex -s gind.ist -o asciilist.ind asciilist.idx
    makeindex -s gglo.ist -o asciilist.gls asciilist.glo
    pdflatex asciilist.dtx
    pdflatex asciilist.dtx

Happy TeX'ing