THE LOUT DOCUMENT FORMATTING SYSTEM, VERSION 3.41
Version 3.41 of the Lout document formatting system is now available
(free of charge). The system reads a high-level description of a
document similar in style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript or
plain text output file.
Lout offers an unprecedented range of advanced features, including
optimal paragraph and page 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),
formatting of computer programs, and much more, all ready to use.
Furthermore, Lout is easily extended with definitions which are very
much easier to write than troff of TeX macros because Lout is a
high-level language, the outcome of an eight-year research project that
went back to the beginning.
Lout is written in highly portable ANSI C. It is distributed under the
GNU public license and is obtainable from
jeffreykingston.id.au/lout
The distribution contains
* Complete C source code, makefile, and installation instructions
* Standard library packages of definitions for ordinary documents,
technical reports, books, overhead transparencies, stand-alone
illustrations, plain text documents, equations, tables, diagrams,
graphs, and computer program formatting for most common languages
* Complete documentation for all these features consisting of a
User's Guide plus an Expert's Guide
A PostScript version of the User's Guide is available from
jeffreykingston.id.au/lout.
Lout was created by Jeffrey H. Kingston (jeff@it.usyd.edu.au) of the
School of Information Technologies at the University of Sydney.
