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Subject: Version 2.05 of Lout document formatting system
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 17:09:23 +1000
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.sources.d,aus.sources
Keywords: document formatting typesetting lout
Version 2.05 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 file which
can be printed on many laser printers and graphic display devices.
Lout offers an unprecedented range of advanced features, including
optimal paragraph breaking, automatic hyphenation, PostScript EPS file
inclusion, equation formatting, tables, diagrams, rotation and scaling,
sorted indexes, bibliographic databases, running headers and odd-even
pages, automatic cross referencing, and much more, all ready to go.
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.
New features just introduced in Version 2.05 include full support for the
ISO-LATIN-1 character set and arbitrary PostScript encoding vectors, small
changes to the DocumentLayout package to simplify porting it to non-English
languages, source code which compiles cleanly on type-fussy compilers and
at least one 64-bit architecture (the DEC Alpha) but is not yet ANSI, and
a few small enhancements and bug fixes.
Lout is written in C, is highly portable to Unix systems, and produces
PostScript output (used by many laser printers). It is distributed under
the GNU public licence as a compressed tar file called lout.2.05.tar.Z
in the "jeff" subdirectory of the home directory you land in when running
"ftp ftp.cs.su.oz.au" with login name "ftp" or "anonymous" (enter any
non-empty password). The comp.sources.misc newsgroup is an alternative
source of Lout distributions. The distribution contains
* Complete C source code
* Standard packages of definitions for tech reports, books, equations,
tables, diagrams, and Pascal prettyprinting (all written in Lout)
* Complete user documentation in the form of seven technical reports
and a Unix manual page
* A makefile and installation instructions
Lout was designed and implemented by Jeffrey H. Kingston (jeff@cs.su.oz.au)
of the Basser Department of Computer Science at the University of Sydney.