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Package: lout (3.38-1)

Typesetting system, an alternative to (La)TeX

Lout is a document formatting system similar in style to LaTeX, i.e. it works with mark-up files - plain text files containing commands to control the formatting.

Lout offers a very full range of features, including 

 * PostScript, PDF, and plain text output
 * 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 C/C++ programs.

Lout may be extended by writing definitions which are much simpler than the equivalent troff or TeX macros.

Lout has several advantages over (La)TeX. It is much smaller, and it is much easier to understand how to do things in Lout (including writing definitions) than in TeX or LaTeX. Lout's PostScript output is very small and clean.

However, it is much less widely used than (La)TeX, so there are fewer add-on definition packages for Lout than for (La)TeX and fewer local experts around to ask about problems. You are unlikely to find many Lout documents floating around the 'net.

Tags: Implemented in: C, User Interface: Command Line, Role: Program, Purpose: Typesetting, Works with: Source Code, Text, Supports Format: PDF Documents, Plain Text, PostScript

Other Packages Related to lout

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  • dep: libc0.1 (>= 2.3) [kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc0.1-udeb
  • dep: libc0.3 (>= 2.7-1) [hurd-i386]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc0.3-udeb
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.5-5) [m68k]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.7-1) [not alpha, hurd-i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, m68k]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.7-1) [alpha, ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
  • dep: lout-common (= 3.38-1)
    Common files for the Lout typesetting system
  • dep: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
    compression library - runtime

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alpha 345.6 kB1732 kB [list of files]
amd64 339.0 kB1640 kB [list of files]
armel 328.5 kB1288 kB [list of files]
hppa 320.6 kB1284 kB [list of files]
hurd-i386 254.2 kB1232 kB [list of files]
i386 257.8 kB1268 kB [list of files]
ia64 507.2 kB2588 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-amd64 339.0 kB1638 kB [list of files]
kfreebsd-i386 257.7 kB1254 kB [list of files]
m68k (unofficial port) 227.2 kB1220 kB [list of files]
mips 325.8 kB1480 kB [list of files]
mipsel 324.2 kB1476 kB [list of files]
powerpc 305.9 kB1296 kB [list of files]
s390 300.7 kB1276 kB [list of files]
sparc 300.6 kB1304 kB [list of files]