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
from Greg Woods. (The second part of that PR is not the correct way
to set papersize in pkgsrc). Main change is that the PDF is no longer
maintained, a more complete list of changes follows:
Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.22 [3 June 2000]
Bug fixes
More setup file options for controlling the appearance of reports
Makefile now explicitly explains how to compile with debugging on/off
Added quotesinglebase, quotedblbase, ellipsis to LtLatin2.LCM file
Object-oriented back end (of interest to implementors only)
Chapters without page breaks option (see @ChapterStartPages, User's Guide)
Font includes all in page setups now (of interest to implementors only)
Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.23 [24 June 2000]
Bug fixes, including Uwe's fix of the nasty bug reported by Matej Cepl,
and my fix of a table running headers bug reported by Matthew Neumann.
Cross links (see User's Guide, Cross References and Links section)
New symbols for expert users: @LinkSource and @LinkDest
@Python symbol for typesetting Python programs using prg2lout.
Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.24 [8 October 2000]
Bug fixes, including a new and better fix for table running headers bugs
Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.25 [December 2001]
Bug fixes
Finnish additions
Croatian, Slovakian, Upper Sorbian
Outdent is now settable e.g. { setoutdent 0.3f } @Break object
@InitialOutdent options for initializing outdent value
Updated barcodes package to work with recent Lout versions (@FontDef)
"downifneeded @Scale" like "{} @Scale" but will only scale down, not up
@F symbol yields a settable font, no longer hardwired to Courier
@TitleOf symbol e.g. "@TitleOf azaleas" similar to "@NumberOf azaleas"
@IndexText option to @Book etc., allows text just below Index title
References may be printed in order of first citation
New @Diag link types: @HVHLine, @HVHCurve, @VHVLine, @VHVCurve
"baselinemark @Font" option (mark along baseline rather than half x height)
@IncludeGraphicRepeated symbol: less output when EPS included repeatedly
Arbitrary colours in @Colour, @Tbl, @Diag, and @Graph, done consistently
Size of small caps can be set now e.g. "{ setsmallcaps 0.8 } @Font ..."
Got rid of boxes around links when PostScript converted to PDF
Revised end of sentence handling for some languages
Symbols for embedding clickable URLs into PostScript output
I've decided not to maintain the PDF back end, but I will try to ensure
that Lout's PostScript output works with PostScript-to-PDF converters.
Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.26 [October 2002]
Fixed bug causing crash when breaking certain list items across pages
Merged index entries completely reimplemented
@DropTagItem (@DTI) now prevents page break after drop tag
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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 }".
