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The Lout FAQ/HOWTO provides information about the Lout document formatting language. It includes a list of questions frequently asked on the Lout mailing list, and is available in the following formats:

• browseable HTML
• gzipped A4-format PostScript (72 kB)
• gzipped letter-format PostScript (72 kB)
• formatted text

Lout Emacs modes

There are two Emacs modes for typing Lout documents, both should be considered in beta. Both are distributed under the GNU GPL.

• Now in version 0.3 (released 1999-04-21) is my Emacs mode, which provides
  • font lock support
  • compilation mode with next-error handling
  • interaction with a Postscript previewer
  • completion support
  • imenu support
  • faces support (M-g b etc)
  • a friendly menu for easy insertion of common Lout constructs

  More information and installation instructions are available in the README. I've tested it with GNU Emacs v19.34 and v20.2, and XEmacs 20.4. Comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome.

• If you are an XEmacs user and like the AucTeX package, you might like to try Gordon Deane's <d3063563@student.anu.edu.au> package (50 kB). It provides
  • powerful font lock support
  • electric quotes and dollars
  • completion support
  • keyboard shortcuts

  Further development is planned. See the README.

Vi modes

Just to show we're not chauvinists, here are some files which add Lout support to the vi-like editors Vim and Elvis. They are contributed by David Duffy <davidD@qimr.edu.au>.

You might also be interested in the Lout home page maintained by Valeriy Ushakov.

This page can be found by searching the web for the 15-letter string uidemarsdenlout. Please do not put this string in any document that could end up on the web, including email messages and PostScript documents. You can refer to it on the web as the string obtained by removing the - from uid-emarsdenlout.