NoteTex

I embarked on a largely successful experiment last term to take LaTeX notes in real-time during class. It turned out, however, that this was difficult, because it was taking me too much time to do the markup for itemised lists—Emacs wasn't any help, because it wasn't able to automatically align nested \begin{itemize} / \end{itemize} pairs. It can, however, align {| / }| pairs, so I wrote a small preprocessor to changes these to begin / end itemize pairs, which greatly sped up my note-taking, and allowed me to focus on content rather than how many levels of lists I had nested. It's an extremely brain-dead program, improvements would definely be in order.

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\parindent=0in
\sloppy
\frenchspacing

\title{Shortbread}
\date{}
\author{}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

Ingredients
{|
    - 4 cups flour
    - 1 cup sugar
    - 1 pound butter
}|

Recipe
{|
    - Part 1
    {|
        - Mix flour and sugar.
        - Mix in butter.
        - Kneed.
        - Roll into a ``log'' and wrap in cellophane.
        - Refrigerate until hard.
    }|
    - Part 2
    {|
        - Pre-heat oven to $325^{\circ}$F.
        - Unwrap dough, and slice into cookies.
        - Place cookies on ungreased baking sheet.
        - Bake for 25-ish minutes.
    }|
}|

\end{document}

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\parindent=0in
\sloppy
\frenchspacing

\title{Shortbread}
\date{}
\author{}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

Ingredients
\begin{itemize}
\item 4 cups flour
\item 1 cup sugar
\item 1 pound butter
\end{itemize}

Recipe
\begin{itemize}
\item Part 1
    \begin{itemize}
\item Mix flour and sugar.
\item Mix in butter.
\item Kneed.
\item Roll into a ``log'' and wrap in cellophane.
\item Refrigerate until hard.
    \end{itemize}
\item Part 2
    \begin{itemize}
\item Pre-heat oven to $325^{\circ}$F.
\item Unwrap dough, and slice into cookies.
\item Place cookies on ungreased baking sheet.
\item Bake for 25-ish minutes.
    \end{itemize}
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

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