Lout

Lout is a batch text formatting system and an embedded

language by Jeffrey H. Kingston [email protected]. The

language is procedural, with Scribe-like syntax.

Lout features equation formatting, tables, diagrams, rotation

and scaling, sorted indexes, bibliographic databases, running

headers and odd-even pages and automatic cross-referencing.

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.

Version 2.05 includes a translator from Lout to PostScript

and documentation. and runs under Unix and on the Amiga.

Author's site ,

. Amiga.

(1993-07-30)