===== What is Ptex2tex? =====

Ptex2tex is a tool that allows you to replace LaTeX environment
declarations with simple keywords. In a way, Ptex2tex allows you to
create LaTeX packages without any sophisticated knowledge on how to
write LaTeX packages. The idea behind Ptex2tex is code generation:
instead of hiding complicated LaTeX constructions in complex LaTeX
packages, one simply generates the necessary LaTeX commands on the fly,
from a compact begin-end environment indication in the LaTeX
source. This implies that you have to preprocess your LaTeX source to
make an ordinary LaTeX file that can be compiled in the usual way.

The main application of Ptex2tex is for inserting verbatim-style
computer code in LaTeX documents. Code can be copied directly from the
source files of the software (complete files or just snippets), and
output from programs can be created and copied into the documentation as
a part of running Ptex2tex. This guarantees that your LaTeX document
contains the most recent version of the program code and its output!

With the default Ptex2tex configuration style, you can switch between
30+ styles for computer code within seconds and just recompile your
LaTeX files. Even in a several-hundred pages book it takes seconds to
consistently change various styles for computer code, terminal sessions,
output from programs, etc. This means that you never have to worry about
choosing a proper style for computer/verbatim code in your LaTeX
document. Just use Ptex2tex and leave the decision to the future. It
takes seconds to change your mind anyway.

Read the
https://ptex2tex.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/ptex2tex_doc.pdf<ptex2tex manual>
for further information and demos.

===== Required Software =====

Ptex2tex requires the following additional software:

 * http://code.google.com/p/preprocess<preprocess>
 * LaTeX packages: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fancyvrb<fancyvrb>,
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/moreverb<moreverb>, pythonhighlights, minted
   (see https://ptex2tex.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/latex/styles<styles>
   in the ptex2tex tree, which include a corrected version of `minted.sty`
 * http://pygments.org<pygments>
