# CTAN package update: paresse

Date: August 13, 2008 12:59:22 PM CEST
The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: paresse Author's name: Yvon Henel Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/paresse Summary description: A means of typing greek letters with an active character §, e.g. §a is equivalent to \ensuremath{\alpha} License type: lppl Announcement text:
Version 2, 50th anniversary edition changes: 1/ deleting of an unused macro 2/ rewriting and repackaging of the documentation 3/ providing of a tds-compliant archive This package provides a means of typing "easily" greek letters with the least possible effort ;) It takes care only of the letters which have a macro name as \alpha or \Omega. It makes the character § active. Documentation in English and in French provided
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/paresse . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/paresse (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

## paresse – Define simple macros for greek letters

The package defines macros using § to type greek letters so that the user may (for example) type §a to get the effect of $\alpha$. However, it takes care only of letters which have a macro name like \alpha or \Omega.

 Package paresse Version 5.0.1 2020-10-10 Copyright 2004, 2008, 2020 Yvon Henel Maintainer Yvon Henel

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