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@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ - THE LOUT DOCUMENT FORMATTING SYSTEM, VERSION 3.35 + THE LOUT DOCUMENT FORMATTING SYSTEM, VERSION 3.36 -Version 3.35 of the Lout document formatting system is now available +Version 3.36 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 +document similar in style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript or plain text output file. Lout offers an unprecedented range of advanced features, including @@ -11,19 +11,19 @@ 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 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. +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 - ftp://ftp.it.usyd.edu.au/jeff/lout/lout-3.35.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.it.usyd.edu.au/jeff/lout/lout-3.36.tar.gz -In other words, in a gzipped tar file called "lout-3.35.tar.gz" in the +In other words, in a gzipped tar file called "lout-3.36.tar.gz" in the "jeff/lout" subdirectory of the home directory of "ftp ftp.it.usyd.edu.au" with login name "ftp" or "anonymous" using any non-empty password. The distribution contains @@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ distribution contains * Standard library packages of definitions for ordinary documents, technical reports, books, overhead transparencies, stand-alone illustrations, plain text documents, equations, tables, diagrams, - graphs, program formatting (C, C++, Eiffel, Blue, Perl, Pod, Pascal, - and Modula - other languages are easy to add) + 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 @@ -44,7 +43,7 @@ distribution contains 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.it.usyd.edu.au/jeff/lout/lout-3.35-user.ps.gz + ftp://ftp.it.usyd.edu.au/jeff/lout/lout-3.36-user.ps.gz Lout was created by Jeffrey H. Kingston (jeff@it.usyd.edu.au) of the School of Information Technologies at the University of Sydney. |