Scripts for LOUT Typesetting System
It’s been a while since I started using the Lout document preparation system in favor of LaTeX. It has a number of advantages like: greatly decreased size (a few Megs compared with the 50 or 100 Megs of TeX distros), higher-level, better looking code etc. Only recently I started considering using Lout as a document generator (like reports) for a software I’m writing (the software generates Lout source code that is passed through Lout and other programs to produce superbe PostScript and PDF files).
And so, because of some issues I encountered, I wrote a couple of short scripts to overcome what I believe are the two most important shortcomings of the Lout typesetting system. (more…)
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