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+SUMMARY="A document formating system"
+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.
+Plain text output is also available, PDF output is limited but working (e.g. no graphics).
+Lout is inherently multilingual. Adding new languages is easy."
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/william8000/lout"
+COPYRIGHT="1991-2010 Jeffrey H. Kingston"
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="$HOMEPAGE/archive/refs/tags/3.42.1.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="b0b2f66a0f959bc80835966c69ae4d4eef2cb0def2b03e634bf1c7e55b1fe6dd"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="all !x86_gcc2"
+SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	lout$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:lout = $portVersion
+	cmd:prg2lout = $portVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
+	devel:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	make PDF_COMPRESSION=1 ZLIB=-lz \
+		PREFIX=$prefix \
+		LIBDIR=$dataDir/lout-$portVersion  \
+		LOUTDOCDIR=$docDir \
+		MANDIR=$manDir/man1 \
+		all $jobArgs
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	make PREFIX=$prefix \
+		LIBDIR=$dataDir/lout-$portVersion  \
+		LOUTDOCDIR=$docDir \
+		MANDIR=$manDir/man1 \
+		allinstall
+}