Lout *not* dead!

[Daren Scot Wilson]

Lout is certainly not dead for me.  I have been using it as recently as 
yesterday, to write a report.  I find it so much easier to get started, 
and to fuss things into the shape I want, ending with making a PDF to 
send to everyone or upload to some archive, than to use LaTeX or a 
WYSIWYG word processor.

Mostly I write internal technical reports concerning proprietary 
technology and algorithms, so I have little to show the public for it.  
But Lout is getting plenty of use by me.

If Lout happens to be so good that it needs no improvement, then so what 
if there haven't been many updates the last couple years? Though it 
would be nice to see packages for specialized typesetting - sheet music, 
chemistry, choreography, etc - be created and published.  That takes a 
certain amount of usage and attention from the world, and someon with 
the motivation and free time to make a package.  Maybe Lout hasn't quite 
arced high enough for that to happen, but it is far from dead or dying 
for the things it can to out of the box.

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