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THE LOUT DOCUMENT FORMATTING SYSTEM
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Lout is a document formatting system similar in style to LaTeX. It
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offers a very full range of features, including PostScript, PDF, and
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plain text output, optimal paragraph and page breaking, automatic
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hyphenation, PostScript EPS file inclusion and generation, equation
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formatting, tables, diagrams, rotation and scaling, sorted indexes,
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bibliographic databases, running headers and odd-even pages, automatic
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cross referencing, multilingual documents including hyphenation (most
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European languages are supported, including Russian), formatting of
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C/C++ programs, and more. Lout may be extended by writing definitions
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which are much simpler than the equivalent troff of TeX macros.
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Lout is written in highly portable ANSI C and runs on most platforms.
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It is distributed under the GNU public license.
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Lout was designed and implemented by Jeffrey H. Kingston (jeff@cs.usyd.edu.au)
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of the Basser Department of Computer Science at the University of Sydney.
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