Lout is a batch text formatting system and an embedded
language by Jeffrey H. Kingston <jeff@cs.su.oz.au>. 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
TeX macros 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,
ftp://ftp.uu.net/tmp/lout.tar.Z.
Amiga.