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@@ -489,4 +489,56 @@ Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.36 [July 2007]
&- after "/" now hyphenates without inserting a hyphen, like &- after -
New @Math symbol (Courtes), will obsolete @Eq next release
+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
+
+ I had one report that prg2lout was returning non-zero intermittently
+ during the formatting of the User's Guide. I have not observed this
+ myself. Presumably there is an uninitialized variable somewhere.
+ It's hard to do anything about this unless someone can get a core
+ dump so we can find out where in prg2lout.c the crash occurred.
+
+ Cichelli and Bader offered a patch to include PDF files by calling
+ a freeware program to convert them to EPS files and including the
+ EPS files. I declined to include this in the standard release
+ because I felt that it could be done outside Lout, and because the
+ PDF support in Lout is not maintained and generally deprecated.
+
+ Strictly speaking, turning hyphenation on in programming languages
+ is not backward compatible. I've done it because I have not been
+ able to think of a case where it would cause trouble. If you find
+ a problem with it, please let me know.
+
Jeff Kingston