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Lout - a document formatting system
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Lout is a document formatting system designed and implemented by
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Jeffrey Kingston at the Basser Department of Computer Science,
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University of Sydney, Australia.
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The system reads a high-level description of a document similar in
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style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript file which can be printed
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on most laser printers and graphic display devices. A plain text
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output option is available, as is a highly experimental PDF output
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mode (users are encouraged to generate PostScript, then convert to
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PDF using GhostScript instead.)
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Lout is inherently multilingual. Adding new languages is easy. The
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following languages are currently supported (in alphabetical order):
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Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian,
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Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish,
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Swedish.
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The Lout language, in which most document typesetting and layout
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tasks are implemented, is a purely functional language, which
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simplifies reasoning about the operations performed.
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