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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 Main change is that the PDF is no longer
maintained, a more complete list of changes follows: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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THE LOUT DOCUMENT FORMATTING SYSTEM
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Lout is a document formatting system similar in style to LaTeX. It
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offers a very full range of features, including PostScript, and plain
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text output, optimal paragraph and page breaking, automatic
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hyphenation, PostScript EPS file inclusion and generation, equation
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formatting, tables, diagrams, rotation and scaling, sorted indexes,
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bibliographic databases, running headers and odd-even pages, automatic
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cross referencing, multilingual documents including hyphenation (most
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European languages are supported, including Russian), formatting of
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C/C++ programs, and more. Lout may be extended by writing definitions
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which are much simpler than the equivalent troff of TeX macros.
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Lout is written in highly portable ANSI C and runs on most platforms.
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It is distributed under the GNU public license.
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Lout was designed and implemented by Jeffrey H. Kingston (jeff@cs.usyd.edu.au)
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of the Basser Department of Computer Science at the University of Sydney.
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