nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/typesetting/lout/default.nix
Bjørn Forsman c9baba9212 Fix many package descriptions
(My OCD kicked in today...)

Remove repeated package names, capitalize first word, remove trailing
periods and move overlong descriptions to longDescription.

I also simplified some descriptions as well, when they were particularly
long or technical, often based on Arch Linux' package descriptions.

I've tried to stay away from generated expressions (and I think I
succeeded).

Some specifics worth mentioning:
 * cron, has "Vixie Cron" in its description. The "Vixie" part is not
   mentioned anywhere else. I kept it in a parenthesis at the end of the
   description.

 * ctags description started with "Exuberant Ctags ...", and the
   "exuberant" part is not mentioned elsewhere. Kept it in a parenthesis
   at the end of description.

 * nix has the description "The Nix Deployment System". Since that
   doesn't really say much what it is/does (especially after removing
   the package name!), I changed that to "Powerful package manager that
   makes package management reliable and reproducible" (borrowed from
   nixos.org).

 * Tons of "GNU Foo, Foo is a [the important bits]" descriptions
   is changed to just [the important bits]. If the package name doesn't
   contain GNU I don't think it's needed to say it in the description
   either.
2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00

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{stdenv, fetchurl, ghostscript}:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "lout-3.40";
src = fetchurl {
urls = [
"ftp://ftp.cs.usyd.edu.au/jeff/lout/${name}.tar.gz"
"mirror://savannah/lout/${name}.tar.gz" # new!
"mirror://sourceforge/lout/${name}.tar.gz" # to be phased out
# XXX: We could add the CTAN mirrors
# (see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/lout/).
];
sha256 = "1gb8vb1wl7ikn269dd1c7ihqhkyrwk19jwx5kd0rdvbk6g7g25ix";
};
buildInputs = [ ghostscript ];
builder = ./builder.sh;
meta = {
description = "Document layout system similar in style to LaTeX";
longDescription = ''
The Lout document formatting system is now reads a high-level
description of a document similar in style to LaTeX and produces
a PostScript or plain text output file.
Lout offers an unprecedented range of advanced features,
including optimal paragraph and page breaking, automatic
hyphenation, PostScript EPS file inclusion and generation,
equation formatting, tables, diagrams, rotation and scaling,
sorted indexes, bibliographic databases, running headers and
odd-even pages, automatic cross referencing, multilingual
documents including hyphenation (most European languages are
supported), formatting of computer programs, and much more, all
ready to use. Furthermore, Lout is easily extended with
definitions which are very much easier to write than troff of
TeX macros because Lout is a high-level, purely functional
language, the outcome of an eight-year research project that
went back to the beginning.
'';
# Author's page: http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jeff/
# Wiki: http://lout.wiki.sourceforge.net/
homepage = http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lout/;
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.ludo ];
};
}