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  1. Lout by killmenow · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Electronic Publishing Using Free Software?

    Check out lout. I found it easier to work with than LaTeX. YMMV.

    If you can wait, you may also consider using Jeff's followup to lout, Nonpareil. The specs are done, but he's still working on a compiler.

  2. There's also Lout by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Is Latex Still Worth Learning?

    You can try Lout also. It's kind of a new LaTeX although they both look the same to me. Whichever is easier to learn, I don't know.

  3. Re:The technology behind TeX by jejones · · Score: 2 · on Knuth: All Questions Answered
    If you want to typeset mathematics, it's the only game in town.

    Eh? What about Lout?

  4. Re:One thing I don't understand..... by C.+Mattix · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Antitrust Update

    And that is why you bought and use those, if more people were like you then Word would be different. It isn't the companies fault that there are uninformed consumers.

    I use about a 50/50 mix of Word and Lout.

  5. Re:features DO matter (lout) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on KOffice 1.1 Rolls Out

    Lout is also a good batch document layout system. It's similar in style to LaTeX. The whole program is extremely lightweight, less than 1.5 meg i think. More info is here:

    lout homepage

    Not many people know about Lout, so have a look. :-)

  6. Re:Well, this was obvious as hell. by Halcyon-X · · Score: 1 · on Be, Inc. Says Cash Can't Last Past Q2
    no webbrowser for their OS that actualyw orked

    Opera? Mozilla? NetPositive? Lynx? That seems to be pretty good right there...

  7. Re:Gee I'm so glad I went for LaTex! by Angst+Badger · · Score: 2 · on Adobe Discontinues FrameMaker for Linux
    TeX and LaTeX are fnarking dogs. They were the best thing going when they came out, but Lout is so much better than both that I gladly abandoned them years ago.

    Mind you, LaTeX is okay if you don't mind using one of its canned document types, but if you want to create your own, especially for an audience that would rather see something that doesn't look like an academic journal article, Lout is a dream to use. Everything coded in raw TeX feels like a kludge; Lout has an elegant and flexible document model that makes it possible to write clean code.

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  8. Re:Utter Rubbish by GypC · · Score: 2 · on Adobe Discontinues FrameMaker for Linux

    I have produced fine quality pdf's using Lout.

    It ain't WYSIWYG, but then again, what is, really?

    "Free your mind and your ass will follow"