From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <90873724bc8f4da51b58f24fbca6ef58@quintile.net> <13426df10912081430u2e707edfje4c253fc8c4c0028@mail.gmail.com> <20091208231050.GA680@polynum.com> Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:29:29 +0100 Message-ID: From: Rudolf Sykora To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd1191e6ee953047a492ac9 Subject: Re: [9fans] tex Topicbox-Message-UUID: adbc108e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd1191e6ee953047a492ac9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Although it is no TeX I would like to suggest ``lout'', a lightweight > (2 MB) document formatting system written in ANSI C by Jeffrey H. > Kingston. [0] > Hello. I have had a look at lout and have printed its user guide. I think it doesn't understand utf. Otherwise it seems to be highly inspired by pic/grap/tbl/eqn. It's these packed together and perhaps polished for the user, so that some operations are easier. But this packing up is probably something I don't like that much. All pic/grap/tbl/eqn have a simple to read and short documentation. Documentation for lout is just long... :) Ruda --000e0cd1191e6ee953047a492ac9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Although it is no TeX I would like to suggest ``lout'', a lightweig= ht
(2 MB) document formatting system written in ANSI C by Jeffrey H.
Kingston. [0]

Hello.
I have had a look at lout and have printed= its user guide.
I think it doesn't understand utf.
Otherwise it = seems to be highly inspired by pic/grap/tbl/eqn. It's these packed toge= ther and perhaps polished for the user, so that some operations are easier.=
But this packing up is probably something I don't like that much.
Al= l pic/grap/tbl/eqn have a simple to read and short documentation.
Docume= ntation for lout is just long... :)

Ruda
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