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- In response to the request for Lout general information, here is my
- standard news blurb.
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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.
-