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Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.14 [released March 1999]
Bug fixes
"lout -PDF" now available as alternative to "lout -Z"
Cross referencing list items yields just the raw item number now
Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.15 [May 1999]
Bug fixes
@FootNoteFormat option for controlling format of footnotes
@TheoremFormat option for controlling format of theorems (etc.)
@ListOuterGap setup file option for space before and after lists
Standardized and improved "slides" package, incl. new setup file options
(NB please send me @Word&&lecture and @Word&&overhead in your language)
Faster database reading (uses more memory though); prevent with -M
@DoubleLine symbol in diagrams for drawing a double line
-l and -L flags for selecting collation order (see lout -u)
Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.16 [28 May 1999]
Bug fixes
Optimal paragraph breaking weights adjusted yet again (sigh)
Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.17 [13 September 1999]
Bug fixes
@AtEnd option for @Book and @Report (unnumbered back cover page)
@Abbreviations symbol in books (like @Introduction but for abbreviations)
@Euro symbol added for getting a European Currency symbol
Document OBJECT struct declaration in externs.h (for gurus only)
Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.18 [26 February 2000]
Bug fixes (more than usual, somehow)
New @CurrYUnit and @CurrZUnit symbols (expert users)
@Diag enhancement: node types, similar to row types in @Tbl
@Diag enhancement: new features for drawing syntax diagrams
Portuguese (thanks to Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro)
Slight change to @Tbl spec (affects aligned columns)
Replaced c2lout with prg2lout (computer program formatting)
@Outline symbol for printing words in outline rather than filled
A few extra @Eq symbols: filledcircle, small, trieq
Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.19 [9 March 2000]
Bug fixes
Four @HeaderComponent symbols for running headers (expert users)
Running headers in multi-page tables
Running headers in indexes
Two extra @Eq symbols: triangleup, triangledown
Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.20 [8 April 2000]
Bug fixes (including the internal error that was dumping core recently)
Multi-line style changes (@I, @Colour etc.) now work in lines @Break mode
@Perl symbol for Perl programming language formatting (includes Pod)
Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.21 [10 May 2000]
Bug fixes (including an old problem of bits lost from programs in tables)
Refinements to @Perl symbol for Perl programming language formatting
Program texts can now be formatted with line numbers added
-V now tells about PDF compression and whether debug output is available
"Page body margins" for indenting of page body wrt headers and footers
Margin notes code updated to work as desired with the new page body margins
@PageEnclose symbol generalizes @PageBox (enclose each page in anything)
Robustness wrt Linux strcoll() improved (tab characters no longer compared)
"Abstract" word in tech reports now centred again by default
Lout now builds composite characters - see Expert's Guide, under @Font
*** IMPORTANT: ONE CHANGE THAT IS NOT UPWARDLY COMPATIBLE ***
If you are using your own setup file, then it is likely to contain the
line "@SysInclude { fontdefs }". There is no longer a fontdefs file,
there is now a fontdefs database, so you need to replace this line with
"@SysDatabase @FontDef { fontdefs }".
