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@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ + + 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. |