#Lout

#Trump is what we in Sweden call a "Tölp". So are most members of his... regime.

"Tölp" translates to: #fool, #oaf, #dolt, #boor, #jerk, #boob, #lout, #idiot, #chump, #klutz, #twit, #clod, #clown, #booby, #bumpkin, #slob, #blunderer, #clot, #yokel, #clodhopper.

Yay... #funny if the world survives.

talkwards.com/2025/08/09/trump

Omikhleia - Dragon Brumeuxomikhleia
2024-12-03

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alice 🪞♥️ 🎩🐇aliceamour@beige.party
2024-08-26
Aslak Raanesaslakr
2024-08-24

@leaverou I think one thing different with github.com/william8000/lout was that it could break paragraphs into pages.

Lout began in 1984 as a research project into the design of a high-level language for document formatting. At that time my name for the subject was ‘document layout,” and this terminology survives in the name ‘Lout’. The initial design was strongly influenced by Brian W. Kernighan and Lorinda L. Cherry’s eqn equation formatter [2], and also by Brian K. Reid’s Scribe system [9]. That research phase ended in October 1991 with the first public release.

Since then the system has been steadily improved and extended. Optimal paragraph break- ing and automatic hyphenation were copied from Donald E. Knuth’s TEX system [6], and the optimal paragraph breaking algorithm was applied to the problem of producing optimal page breaks. The first implementations of horizontal galleys and optimal page breaking were by my student Gabor Inokai. Vincent Tan contributed the PDF back end. Ludovic Courtés contributed the @Math package and set up the current mailing list. Valeriy E. Ushakov smoothed the path for many people, by his contributions to improving Lout’s robustness, and his tireless management of and responses to the Lout mailing list. The number of other people who have offered comments and suggestions to me is so great that it is quite out of my power to acknowledge them individually. T hope that seeing their ideas adopted will be thanks enough.
Michael Piotrowskimxp@mastodon.acm.org
2024-04-15

Twenty years ago, I wrote an #XSLT stylesheet that, given some #XML document, produces input for the #Lout formatter to generate a tree diagram of this document. You can specify an XPath expression to highlight the selected nodes. This is obviously useful for teaching, but I never got around updating it to remove the dependency on Lout, so for the last ten years, I’ve been using the same examples for which I had PDFs.

Until today!

Tree diagram produced with Lout.Tree diagram produced with Mermaid.
2023-06-01

@civodul I investigated #Lout a lot when reappraising the topic x2 years ago.

It seems great, I wish its developer kept chipping away at it, although as #skribilo demonstrates it can satisfy a lot of usecases.

I did not know it was one 1 MiB!

2023-06-01

It’s been 30 years and 1 day since #Lout was first released:
groups.google.com/group/comp.s

If you’ve never heard about it (likely!), Lout is a purely functional #typesetting system (think TeX/LaTeX) that offers a *lot* in one MiB!
download.savannah.nongnu.org/r

Death Cabbagetkohl@mstdn.party
2023-05-23
2022-03-10

I remember getting to master #Lout rather quickly ~20 years ago.

Now I’ve been using #LaTeX on and off for a dozen of years, and I still have no clue what’s going on, I find myself typing stuff in a search engine and pasting answers.

Is that expected? 🤔

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