loud

adj 1: characterized by or producing sound of great volume or

intensity; "a group of loud children"; "loud thunder";

"her voice was too loud"; "loud trombones" [ant: {soft}]

2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish

colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a

meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: {brassy},

{cheap}, {flash}, {flashy}, {garish}, {gaudy}, {gimcrack},

{meretricious}, {tacky}, {tatty}, {tawdry}, {trashy}]

3: used chiefly as a direction or description in music; "the

forte passages in the composition" [syn: {forte}] [ant: {piano}]

adv : with relatively high volume; "the band played loudly"; "she

spoke loudly and angrily"; "he spoke loud enough for

those at the back of the room to hear him"; "cried

aloud for help" [syn: {loudly}, {aloud}] [ant: {softly}]

Lout

Lout is a batch text formatting system and an embedded

language by Jeffrey H. Kingston . The

language is procedural, with {Scribe}-like {syntax}.

Lout features equation formatting, tables, diagrams, rotation

and scaling, sorted indexes, bibliographic databases, running

headers and odd-even pages and automatic cross-referencing.

Lout is easily extended with definitions which are very much

easier to write than {troff} of {TeX} {macro}s because Lout is

a {high-level language}, the outcome of an eight-year research

project that went back to the beginning.

Version 2.05 includes a translator from Lout to {PostScript}

and documentation. and runs under {Unix} and on the {Amiga}.

{Author's site (ftp://ftp.cs.su.oz.au/jeff/lout.2.03.tar.Z)},

{(ftp://ftp.uu.net/tmp/lout.tar.Z)}. {Amiga

(ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/text/dtp/loutBin203.lha)}.

(1993-07-30)