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+         THE LOUT DOCUMENT FORMATTING SYSTEM, VERSION 3.17
+
+Version 3.17 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, PDF 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,
+including Russian), formatting of C/C++ 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 as follows:
+
+   ftp://ftp.cs.usyd.edu.au/jeff/lout/lout-3.17.tar.gz
+
+In other words, in a gzipped tar file called "lout-3.17.tar.gz" in the
+"jeff/lout" subdirectory of the home directory of "ftp ftp.cs.usyd.edu.au"
+with login name "ftp" or "anonymous" using any non-empty password.  The
+distribution contains
+
+  *  Complete C source code
+
+  *  Standard library packages of definitions for ordinary documents,
+     technical reports, books, overhead transparencies, stand-alone
+     illustrations, plain text documents, equations, tables, diagrams,
+     graphs, C and C++ program formatting, and Pascal
+
+  *  Complete documentation for all these features consisting of a
+     User's Guide plus an Expert's Guide
+
+  *  A makefile and installation instructions
+
+For those who want to browse first, a PostScript version of the User's
+Guide may be found in the same ftp directory:
+
+   ftp://ftp.cs.usyd.edu.au/jeff/lout/lout-3.17.user.ps.gz
+
+Lout was designed and implemented by Jeffrey H. Kingston (jeff@cs.usyd.edu.au)
+of the Basser Department of Computer Science at the University of Sydney.