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diff --git a/office/lout/README b/office/lout/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fde8727d7a --- /dev/null +++ b/office/lout/README @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Lout - a document formatting system + +Lout is a document formatting system designed and implemented by +Jeffrey Kingston at the Basser Department of Computer Science, +University of Sydney, Australia. + +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 inherently 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, +Swedish. + +The Lout language, in which most document typesetting and layout +tasks are implemented, is a purely functional language, which +simplifies reasoning about the operations performed. |