[Savannah-register-public] [task #10563] Submission of Lout

[Ludovic Courtès]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?10563>

                 Summary: Submission of Lout
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: civodul
            Submitted on: Thu 19 Aug 2010 12:49:38 PM GMT
         Should Start On: Thu 19 Aug 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT
   Should be Finished on: Sun 29 Aug 2010 12:00:00 AM GMT
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


= Registration Administration =

While this item will be useful to track the registration process, *approving
or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group
Administration
<https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=10613> page*,
accessible only to site administrators, effectively *logged as site
administrators* (superuser):

* Group Administration
<https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=10613>


= Registration Details =

* Name: *Lout*
* System Name:  *lout*
* Type: non-GNU software & documentation
* License: GNU General Public License v3 or later (Lout is a ~20 year old
free software project, originally developed by Jeff Kingston as part of his
research activities at the University of Sydney.

Historically, Lout-related resources have been scattered: the tarballs are at
<ftp://ftp.cs.usyd.edu.au/jeff/lout/> and mirrored at
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/lout/files/>, the mailing list (now defunct)
is at <http://lists.planix.com/pipermail/lout-users/>, and a wiki is at
<http://lout.sf.net/>.

The goal here would be to move all these resources in one place, and Savannah
seems like a good choice.  :-)

There are technical issues, though:

  - We'll want to import the mailing list archive.

  - Ideally, we'd like to import the wiki, but my understanding is that
Savannah doesn't officially support Wikis, except perhaps in some cases (e.g.,
<http://hurd.gnu.org/>).

Any idea whether/how this can be done?)

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==== Description: ====
Lout is a document formatting system designed and implemented by Jeffrey
Kingston at the Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney,
Australia.

The system reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to
LaTeX and produces a PostScript file which can be printed on most laser
printers and graphic display devices. A plain text output option is available,
as is a highly experimental PDF output mode (users are encouraged to generate
PostScript, then convert to PDF using GhostScript instead.)

Lout is inherently multilingual. Adding new languages is easy. The following
languages are currently supported (in alphabetical order): Czech, Danish,
Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian,
Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish. 


==== Other Software Required: ====
(none)


==== Tarball URL: ====
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lout/files/lout/3.38/lout-3.38.tar.gz/download






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