Convert NPM Spice to "text" template (addresses #1224)

Made the changes suggested by @jagtalon to fix #1224 (and learned what the normalize function does in the process :). Here's a screenshot of the updated IA:

![screen shot 2014-11-09 at 12 34 22 am](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/5326740/4966583/dd985b04-67d2-11e4-91a0-71f0a8db232b.png)