# Lout

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Lout is a lightware document formatting system invented by Jeffrey H. Kingston. It reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript.

## Installation

Install the lout package.

In order to enable cyrillic printout, fonts need to be installed separately (e.g lout-dejavu-gitAUR).

## Using

Lout supports only one byte encoding, thus you need to use specific character map in case of non-english input.

    example.lout

    @SysInclude {doc}
    @SysInclude {dejavu}
    @Document
      @InitialFont { DejaVuSerif Base 12p}
      @InitialLanguage { Russian }
    @Text @Begin

    @Display @Heading {Russian language example}

    @LP
    Параграф на русском языке.

    @End @Text

iconv could be used to obtain required encoding, before feed source to lout:

    $ iconv -f utf-8 -t koi8-r example.lout example.koi8-r.lout
    $ lout  example.koi8-r.lout example.ps

Ps2pdf could be used to covert post script file to pdf:

    $ ps2pdf example.ps example.pdf

## See also

- A User's Guide to the Lout Document Formatting System
- An Expert’s Guide to the Lout Document Formatting System
- Lout on Wikipedia

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