This is the README.md file for dednat6.

Dednat6 is an extensible (semi-)preprocessor for LuaLaTeX that understands diagrams in ASCII art.

The best introduction to Dednat6 is the TUGBoat article about it:

http://angg.twu.net/dednat6/tugboat-rev2.pdf

https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb39-3/tb123ochs-dednat.pdf

The home page of Dednat6 is:

http://angg.twu.net/dednat6.html

Dednat6 is not in CTAN yet.

Here is a way to download Dednat6 from git and test it:

rm -Rfv /tmp/dednat6/
cd      /tmp/
git clone https://github.com/edrx/dednat6
cd      /tmp/dednat6/
make
make clean

The "make" will compile all its .tex files into PDFs; the "make clean" will delete all the generated files except the PDFs. After doing "make" and "make clean" open the file demo-minimal.tex, read its instructions and try to modify it and recompile it. See:

http://angg.twu.net/dednat6.html#quick-start

http://angg.twu.net/dednat6/demo-minimal.tex.html

The git repository does not include the PDFs generated from the .tex files. To access them and the HTMLized versions of the source files, go to:

http://angg.twu.net/dednat6.html#git

Eduardo Ochs
eduardoochs@gmail.com
http://angg.twu.net/