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Lout - Document formatting system

Lout is a document formatting system similar to LaTeX. The system reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript file which can be printed on most laser printers and graphic display devices. Plain text and PDF (starting from version 3.12) output are also available. Furthermore, Lout is easily extended with definitions which are easier to write than troff or TeX macros because Lout is a high-level language.

Lout offers an unprecedented range of advanced features, including:

optimal paragraph breaking
automatic hyphenation
PostScript EPS file inclusion and generation
equation formatting
tables
diagrams
rotation and scaling
sorted indexes
bibliographic databases
running headers and odd
even pages
automatic cross referencing
multilingual documents including hyphenation (most European languages are supported, including Russian)
formatting of C, C++, Java, Eiffel, and other programs

Obtaining

Web page	http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout/lout.html
Source tarball	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lout/lout-3.25.tar.gz
Source information	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2450

Version 3.17 (stable) released on 1999-09-17

Version 3.25 (devel) released on 2001-12-24

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User's and expert's guides included; User's guide available in PostScript format from http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout/user.ps.gz; User's guide available in PDF format from http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout/user.pdf; Programmer's guide available in PostScript format from http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout/expert.ps.gz; Programmer's guide available in PDF format from http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout/expert.pdf

Support contacts

Announce List	<lout@pyt.spbu.ru>
Help List	<lout@pyt.spbu.ru> http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout/list.html
Developer List	<lout@pyt.spbu.ru> http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout/list.html
Bug List	<lout@pyt.spbu.ru> http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout/list.html

Project contacts

Maintainers	Jeffrey Kingston <jeff@cs.usyd.edu.au>
Developers	Jeffrey Kingston <jeff@cs.usyd.edu.au>
Contributors	Valerie Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>

Related information

Interfaces	command line
Source languages	C
Related programs	LaTeX

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-02-16
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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