Lout is a batch text formatting system and an embedded language by Jeffrey H. Kingston . The language is procedural, with Scribe-like syntax. Lout features equation formatting, tables, diagrams, rotation and scaling, sorted indexes, bibliographic databases, running headers and odd-even pages and automatic cross-referencing. Lout is easily extended with definitions which are very much easier to write than troff of TeXmacros because Lout is a high-level language, the outcome of an eight-year research project that went back to the beginning. Version 2.05 includes a translator from Lout to PostScript and documentation. and runs under Unix and on the Amiga. Author' s site , . {Amiga (ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/text/dtp/loutBin203.lha)}. (1993-07-30)
