Lout – document formatting system

Lout is a document formatting system.

The system reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript file which can be printed on most laser printers and graphic display devices. A plain text output option is available, as is a highly experimental PDF output mode (users are encouraged to generate PostScript, then convert to PDF using GhostScript instead).

Lout is multilingual. Adding new languages is easy. The following languages are currently supported (in alphabetical order): Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish.

This is free and open source software.

Website: savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lout
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Developer: Jeffrey Kingston
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Lout is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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