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diff --git a/textproc/lout/DESCR b/textproc/lout/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3291a6849d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/lout/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +THE LOUT DOCUMENT FORMATTING SYSTEM + +Lout is a document formatting system similar in style to LaTeX. It +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, and more. Lout may be extended by writing definitions +which are much simpler than the equivalent troff of TeX macros. + +Lout is written in highly portable ANSI C and runs on most platforms. +It is distributed under the GNU public license. + +Lout was designed and implemented by Jeffrey H. Kingston (jeff@cs.usyd.edu.au) +of the Basser Department of Computer Science at the University of Sydney. |