Version 3.21 of Lout now available

[Jeffrey Howard Kingston]

Version 3.21 of Lout is now available from the usual place:

    ftp://ftp.cs.usyd.edu.au/jeff/lout/lout-3.21.tar.gz

Extract from the whatsnew file:

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 }".

Jeff Kingston