file extension AFM - Lout document formatting system
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File extension AFM description:
File extension AFM is related to Lout - a high-level language for document formatting. This freeware was designed and implemented by Jeffrey H. Kingston of the Basser Department of Computer Science at the University of Sydney in 1993..afm
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Jeffrey H. Kingston
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 many laser printers and graphic display devices.
Lout offers an unprecedented range of advanced features:
- optimal paragraph breaking,
- automatic hyphenation,
- PostScript EPS file inclusion,
- equation formatting,
- tables,
- diagrams,
- rotation and scaling,
- sorted indexes,
- bibliographic databases,
- running headers and odd-even pages,
- automatic cross referencing,
- and much more.
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