Lout is a batch document formatter. It 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. Plain text and PDF output are also available.
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Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.38 [October 2008] Bug fixes: Fixed my bungled installation of Bader's patch allowing EPS previews Fiddled with prg2lout.c hoping to fix its intermittent crash bug Converted "non-zero exit status of filter" from a fatal error to a warning, so the unfixed prg2lout error has fewer repercussions
Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.37 [September 2008] Bug fixes: LinkDest x coordinate (reported by Man and Stott) fixed @PipeRawVerbatim (reported by Summerfield) fixed @Figure PageFoot location (reported by Summerfield) fixed Rounding error in some uses of @Scale (reported by Courtes) reduced Problem with null chars in EPS files reported & fixed by Cichelli/Bader In @Graph, problems with symbolsize option (reported by Garcia) fixed Gap before inserted hyphens in Palatino (reported by van den Hoff) fixed PostScript file %%BoundingBox problem (reported by van den Hoff) fixed @BypassWord option for @Chapter added (Courtes) @FontDef outside a database works now (but not recommended) New @PageParityOf symbol like @PageOf but returns "Odd" or "Even" New @PageNumberFormat setup file option (Courtes/Kingston) New @InitialBackgroundColour setup file option (Courtes) Updates to prg2lout.c for Haskell (Greif) New @TitleFormat, @AuthorFormat, @InstitutionFormat, @DateLineFormat slides setup file options (Courtes) In @Diag, path { doubleline } now looks right with arrowstyles open, halfopen, curvedopen and curvedhalfopen (problem reported by Carroll) @ShadowBox still has no option for changing the colour of the shadow, but the User's Guide now has an example showing how to simulate it Increased z08.c/MAX_DEPTH to 2000 (Forkl hit previous limit) @ContentsFormat setup file option now documented in User's Guide Preface of User's Guide now advertises the Lout web page Increased externs.h/MAX_LEX_STACK to 20 (Summerfield hit previous limit) New symbollinewidth option in @Graph (line width for data points) Inclusion of EPS files with previews now supported (Bader) @TitleOf symbol now returns figure captions as well as chapter titles Hyphenation on in programming languages, using new "Programming @Language" New @DocInfo symbol (see User's Guide, Section 3.7) @Math symbol (Courtes) has now replaced @Eq in User's Guide; @Eq is still available for backward compatibility
Changes (from the file 'whatsnew' by Jeff Kingston): -------------------------------------------------- Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.36 [July 2007] Bug fixes: "lout -t" really does avoid textures completely now (Ludovic Courtes) small patch (@PC becomes @PS) to prg2lout.c (Gabor Greif) patch to haskellf (Gabor Greif) changed haskellf symboloperators from "Symbol Base" to "Slope" (Kingston) Lout now released under Version 3 of the GNU General Public License Improved headings of numberless chapters/sections (Ludovic Courtes) @BypassNumber option for numbered displays (Courtes/Kingston) &- after "/" now hyphenates without inserting a hyphen, like &- after - New @Math symbol (Courtes), will obsolete @Eq next release
Changes (from the file 'whatsnew' by Jeff Kingston): -------------------------------------------------- Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.36 [July 2007] Bug fixes: "lout -t" really does avoid textures completely now (Ludovic Courtes) small patch (@PC becomes @PS) to prg2lout.c (Gabor Greif) patch to haskellf (Gabor Greif) changed haskellf symboloperators from "Symbol Base" to "Slope" (Kingston) Lout now released under Version 3 of the GNU General Public License Improved headings of numberless chapters/sections (Ludovic Courtes) @BypassNumber option for numbered displays (Courtes/Kingston) &- after "/" now hyphenates without inserting a hyphen, like &- after - New @Math symbol (Courtes), will obsolete @Eq next release
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