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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 |