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Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.04

    Bug fixes
    Underlining
    Small capitals now work properly
    More flexible reference formatting setup file options
    List items and displays now break across page boundaries
    Quick reference guide (Appendix A, User's Guide)
    Version of @Eq that uses TeX's fonts
    Numbered list items can be tagged and referred to using @NumberOf
    Multi-paragraph figure captions and multi-page figures
    Various micro changes to @Eq to improve appearance
    Merged index entries, and better guidance on how to make an index
    DOS portability (I hope), still working on Mac portability
    Eiffel programming language printing
    Multi-word tags and sorting keys permitted
    Margin notes
    `Bypass' symbols (fewer passes for computer-generated Lout source)
    Arbitrary chapter heading and part heading layouts
    Viewers like GhostView now show real page numbers
    @Sup and @Sub symbols (similar to sup and sub in equations)
    Slovenian language
    ANSI C (getting closer and closer...)
    @IncludeGraphic will now accept a compressed file e.g. filename.eps.gz
    @Verbatim { ... } like in LaTeX.
 
Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.05

    Bug fixes
    ANSI C (getting very very close...)
    Removed call to system("sort"), which was causing porting problems
    Optional list of tables and list of figures in books
    More options and setup file options for fine-tuning tables and figures
    Package for printing bar codes (see software directory)
    Moved initialization of non-English error message files into makefile

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.06

    Bug fixes
    Czech
    Plain text manual pages for people without troff

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.07

    Bug fixes
    @URL field added to references
    @LongFootNote, @LongEndNote, @LongCaption stupidity removed
    Matrices and delimiters in equations improved
    Captions to figures and tables may be above or below
    Theorems, definitions, claims, propositions, lemmas, corollaries, examples
    Words like "Chapter" and "Theorem" may be changed by the user
    Numbered displays have been re-implemented and are much improved
    @RightDisplay symbol
    @F symbol added as synonym for { Courier Base -1p } @Font ...
    Ability to set simple document options in the command line
    Horizontal galleys (for expert users)
    Drop capitals (large capitals in top left corner of paragraph)
    Optimal body text breaking (makes large in-line displays more practical)
    More flexible control of the format of chapter, section etc. headings
    Option for starting chapters etc. on any, odd, or even pages
    Command line option -S for safe execution (prohibits calls to system())
    Symbols for up to three independent indexes at the end of each document
    References work now when the citation point is after the reference list
    Placement of objects at arbitrary points on the page
    Reference lists may be before or after appendices
    Choice of nine locations for figures and tables (page top, foot, etc.)
    Numbering of footnotes works properly in all unusual cases now
    Database index files created afresh automatically if system has stat()
    Choice of rules for spaces between words (like Lout, troff, or TeX)
    Spacing in equations (both eq and teq) further improved
    Kerning of accented characters deduced from corresponding unaccented ones
    @NotRevealed symbol (for expert users)
    Another, hopefully better attempt made at Latin-2 formatting

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.08

    Bug fixes

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.09

    Bug fixes
    French hyphenation
    foll_or_prec works in all cases now, not just galleys (for expert users)
    @Enclose symbol (for expert users)
    Multi-page figures and tables can be boxed (revised @Format option)
    Optimal paragraph breaker has been tuned to discourage widow words,
      and to hyphenate more paragraphs but use fewer hyphens when it does
    More consistent set of setup files since all now derived from one master
    Setup files "doc" and "report" now work with plain text output
    Unpaginated (continuous) plain text output
    @FirstChapterNumber, @FirstSectionNumber etc. options in setup file
    Alternative error message format (filename:linenum:colnum: ...)
    Newline no longer needed at end of file
    New diagram drawing package called Diag (replaces Fig):
      many new link types; trees; labelled nodes and links; many useful options
    New "oragged" paragraph breaking style, combines ragged and outdent
    Comprehensive usage message printed by "lout -u"
    Horizontal spacing of subscripts in equations (both eq and teq) improved

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.10

    Bug fixes
    @StructPageNums option for pages numbered by section
    Dot between section (etc.) numbers and title made optional
    Updated version of lout.teq (TeX-style equation formatter)
    EvenPageTop and EvenFullPage figure and table locations
    @Graph options for plotting values in decreasing order
    References may cite other references now (bug fix)
    Installation option for making "lout -S" the default behaviour
    @E symbol added alongside @Eq as synonym for @OneCol @Eq
    New language EnglishUK which is like English but with UK hyphenation rules
    @AnotherFootNote symbol for consecutive footnotes on one word
    LOUTLIB env variable determines library directory at run time if set
    Lots of arrow symbols added to eq and teq
    Paragraph gaps may have "u" suffix, meaning unbreakable (for expert users)

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.11

    Bug fixes
    Sorting collation sequence may be locale-specific if desired
    Changed paragraph breaker, no longer calls the notorious CorrectOversize
    Word count feature (see manual entry, -w)
    Italian language
    Fix for the long-standing bug in database file reading on DOS-like systems

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.12

    Bug fixes
    @CurrFamily and @CurrFace symbols similar to @CurrLang (for expert users)
    @II symbol for getting italics right in headings and tables of contents
    @Graph now has rticks option for ticks on right-hand side of frame
    PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format) back end (command line flag -Z)
    Latin2 and Russian are now part of the main Lout distribution
    Changed license from GNU General Public License Version 1 to Version 2

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.13 [released February 1999]

    Bug fixes
    Gaps between galley components may have "u" (unbreakable) suffix, meaning
      that the galley may not be broken at this gap (for expert users)
    @StartHSpan, @StartVSpan, @StartHVSpan, @HSpan, @VSpan (spanning cols, rows)
    unbreakablefirst @Break and unbreakablelast @Break (stops widows, orphans)
    named parameters may import their parent, like body parameters (expert)
    definitions and named parameters may have multiple names (expert)
    @OneOf symbol chooses result that contains desired galley target (expert)
    @HLimited, @VLimited symbols for further control over use of space (expert)
    @ListInterruptItem and @ListNewPage: interrupts, page breaks between items
    @Verbatim symbol now built-in, so no longer limited to Unix
    @RawVerbatim like @Verbatim but preserves initial spaces on first line
    0rt gap for left justification of the preceding object (expert)
    @Background symbol for printing one object in the background of another
    Maximum depth of @Includes increased from 7 to 10
    New table formatting package, see User's Guide (old one is still there)
    New @Meld symbol for better melding of index entries (expert)
    Option to @FootNote for choosing your own footnote label
    Optional full-width abstracts in technical reports
    Hungarian language including Hungarian-specific heading formats

    *** IMPORTANT: TWO CHANGES THAT ARE NOT UPWARDLY COMPATIBLE ***

    (1)  The @Abstract symbol in technical reports now comes before the
	 // symbol, not after it.  See User's Guide for details.

    (2)  Setup file arrangements have changed.  You now need to have one
	 @SysInclude line for each package you use.  For example,

	    Previous versions           Version 3.13
	    ---------------------------------------------

	    @SysInclude { eq }          @SysInclude { eq }
	    @SysInclude { ddoc }        @SysInclude { diag }
				        @SysInclude { doc }

         Import clauses in mydefs files also have to change:

	    Previous versions           Version 3.13
	    ---------------------------------------------

            import @DocumentLayout      import @BasicSetup
	    import @CPrint              import @CPSetup
	    import @DiagramPrint        import @DiagSetup

         Sorry for the inconvenience, but the old system was inconsistent
	 and was tending towards an unsustainable combinatorial explosion
	 of setup files.  No changes *within* documents are needed, and
	 these new arrangements do not affect the content of the packages.
	 The user's guide documents it all.

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 }".

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

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.27 [22 November 2002]

    Fixes for all bugs, including table running headers and index headers
    Repeated @PrependGraphic of same file allowed and ignored
    Repeated @Include of same file of definitions allowed and ignored
    Pie graphs (see new chapter of User's Guide)
    Textures, a.k.a. patterns (see new section of Basic Graphics chapter,
      and revisions to @Tbl, @Pie, @Diag, and @Graph chapters)
    User's Guide no longer mentions @Diag lengths (1.2 cm, 0.5 ft etc),
      although they are still available for backward compatibility
    Arrowheads at opposite ends of a @Diag link now each have own style,
      length, and width (NB this is marginally not upward compatible)
    User's Guide now recommends "paint { none }" to get no paint, although
      the old "nopaint" value is still available for backward compatibility
    Any line anywhere can end in any of \n, \r, \r\n, or \n\r
    26 more strings recognised as keywords in @CP C/C++ printing
    Lots more named colours using Mark Summerfield's @Xrgb symbol
    Glossaries, following a design by Thorsten Seitz
    @IndexFormat, @SubIndexFormat, @SubSubIndexFormat options for
      changing the format of index entries
    @IndexSpacer and @IndexLetters - spacers (headers) within indexes
    In @Diag, @Box and @ShadowBox now have NNW, NNE, SSW, and SSE tags
    User's Guide has revised and larger (17-page) index

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.28 [December 2002]

    Bug fixes
    @Colophon symbol produces colophons in books
    Nonpareil and Ruby programming languages supported by prg2lout
    Eight-bit characters considered printable by prg2lout
    "lout -t" ignores texture changes, for when tools don't support them
    @Ding symbol (like @Sym) for dingbats
    Dingbats fully documented in Chapter 1 of the User's Guide

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.29 [August 2003]

    Fixed latest table running headers bug
    @PageLabel value "?" usually now replaced by a guess at a page number
    Index entry types (Ordinary, Main, Special) for index pagenum format
    Haskell programming language support in prg2lout (ack Thorsten Seitz)
    RSL programming language support in prg2lout (ack Darren Bane)
    @OneOrBoth symbol added to syntax diagrams, for "X | Y | XY" grammar
    New outlinestyle/pathstyle options for @Diag:  dotdashed, dotcdashed,
      dotdotdashed, dotdotcdashed, dotdotdotdashed, and dotdotdotcdashed
    New pairs options for @Graph: dotdashed, dotdotdashed, dotdotdotdashed;
      plus @GraphDotDashed, @GraphDotDotDashed, @GraphDotDotDotDashed syms

    Things not done

      I may have promised to add dashed, dotted etc. options to @Tbl's
	rules, but existing code does not lend itself to it, so I haven't.

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.30 [October 2004]

   Bug fixes (H. K. Man's fix for PDF links, '' in Python, crashing
     for some cases of "lout --option{value}")
   Fixed bug with large page sizes.  Lout stores object sizes in 32-bit
     integers, but smaller numbers (gap widths, shifts, character metrics
     etc.) in 16-bit integers.  The left parameter of @Wide and @High was
     erroneously being passed through a 16-bit variable.
   Added A2 to list of page types (it works, too)
   Reference new mailing list address
   @HMirror and @VMirror symbols for reflecting objects
   @IndexRangeFormat option for changing "from--to" format in indexes
   "nolig @Font" for turning off ligatures in following object
   @BeginSubPrefaces, @SubPreface, and @EndSubPrefaces symbols
   @BeginSubIntroductions, @SubIntroduction, and @EndSubIntroductions symbols
   @ParagraphItem symbol (like @ListItem but label integrated into paragraph)
   Documented the danger of keeping valuable .ld files in source directories
   Kerning now tries original characters before their unaccented versions
   "@Graph style { grid }" replaces ticks in graphs with grid lines

   Things not done

      @CaptionGap not implementable since some gaps between figures and
	captions are not accessible.  Try @FigureCaptionFormat.
      Brazilian Portuguese declined on the grounds that it turned out
        virtually identical to Portuguese Portuguese (convince me...)
      I may have promised to add an "incontents" option to large-scale
        structure symbols, which would allow them to opt out of the table
	of contents.  On second thoughts I'm unwilling to do this.  I need
	to be convinced that Lout should encourage this strange thing.

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.31 [August 2005]

   Bug fixes:
     Ludovic Courtes's fix for ligatures problem
     Kingston and Piotrowski's fix for list number referencing problem
     Fix for things adjacent to relations disappearing in program texts
   Added @VStrut, @ZeroWidth, @ZeroHeight symbols to basic setup module
   New User's Guide section ("Precise object placement") documenting
     @VStrut, @ZeroWidth, @ZeroHeight, and similar already existing symbols
   Improved rule for avoiding orphan section headings, following a
     suggestion by Ludovic Courtes
   Added @ChapterContentsIndent, @SectionContentsIndent etc. to setup files
   Latin3 and Esperanto (contributed by Ludovic Courtes)
   "Bullets" and "Symbols" footnote numbering styles (contributed by
     Michael Piotrowski)
   "marginkerning @Break" (contributed by Ludovic Courtes)
   @E inline equation symbol now squeezes superscripts, more like TeX
   "lout @Space" now used throughout program texts by default (can be
     changed by setup file options)

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.32 [October 2006]

   Bug fixes:
      Uwe's problem of CRLF occurring on file block boundaries fixed, I hope
      Ludovic's fix ensuring "rragged @Break" applies to isolated words
      EPS files generated by Lout now safe to include in Lout documents
   Multi-column lists (see List section of User's Guide for details)
   Basic command-line errors print usage as well as error message
   "break" option for lists, "@ListBreak" in setup file (Summerfield)
   "labelright" list option, "@ListLabelRight" in setup file (Summerfield)
   Peculiar behaviour of multi-paragraph table entries now documented
   Some changes to the makefile (contributed by Greg Woods)
   Options for the title page of overheads (contributed by Ludovic Courtes)
   "blanklinescale" option to "@Break" (scales height of blank lines)
   "blanklinescale" options in cprint, java etc.
   "blanknumbered" option in cprint, java etc. (don't number blank lines)
   "=head3" token added to Pod programming language
   "-r" command line option, e.g. -r3 runs Lout three times

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.33 [November 2006]

   "-w" command line option prints word count only on last "-r" run
   prg2lout Python language updated to Python 2.5 (Mark Summerfield)
   EPS files generated by Lout even safer to include in Lout documents
   New @Diag link shapes: dhuline, dhucurve, uhdline, uhdcurve
   "SHORT_LENGTH" data type removed from C code (cue general rejoicing)
   A0 and A1 paper sizes added (and they *really* work)
   "strut @Font" inserts an invisible vertical strut into each word under it
   "font" option to "@List" etc., e.g. "@NumberedList font { strut }"
   "@NewPage { Yes }" option to "@Section" etc. for properly spaced new page
   "@Floater" symbol added (clone of "@Figure" and "@Table")

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.34 [March 2007]

   Bug fixes:
     New @Diag link shapes symbols now visible as they should be
     Better handling of ellipsis (...) and similar tokens in Python
     Font change in |{{Crystal Base 9p} @Font 4f} no longer ignored
     Fixed bug causing cross reference database to occasionally add space
   prg2lout Python language now implements @ token (Mark Summerfield)
   &- now turns off hyphenation within immediately adjacent words
   New "olines @Break" style combines "lines @Break" with outdenting
   New @Pipe, @PipeVerbatim, and @PipeRawVerbatim symbols (Unix only)
   In @Diag, "arrowstyle { solidwithbar }" for arrows like this: -->|
   New @SetContext and @GetContext symbols for experts (Ludovic Courtes)
   In @Diag, new @DNode and @ENode symbols like @ANode, @BNode, and @CNode
     (also usable as @DCell and @ECell in syntax diagrams)

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.35 [April 2007]

   Bug fix: @IncludeGraphicRepeated is working again, although it does
     crash my printer (but fine with kghostview, evince, ps2pdf etc.)
   Precedences and associativities now specifiable by invoking a macro
   New @ColouredUnderline symbol makes coloured underlines
   New "arrowstyle { many }" in @Diag makes "many"-relation arrowheads
   New @HClip and @VClip symbols for clipping (see User's Guide)

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.36 [July 2007]

   Bug fixes:
      "lout -t" really does avoid textures completely now (Ludovic Courtes)
      small patch (@PC becomes @PS) to prg2lout.c (Gabor Greif)
      patch to haskellf (Gabor Greif)
      changed haskellf symboloperators from "Symbol Base" to "Slope" (Kingston)
   Lout now released under Version 3 of the GNU General Public License
   Improved headings of numberless chapters/sections (Ludovic Courtes)
   @BypassNumber option for numbered displays (Courtes/Kingston)
   &- 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.

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.38 [October 2008]

   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

Changes and new features introduced in Version 3.39 [September 2010]

   Bug fixes:
     Fixed a problem with @IndexBText
   Added copyright notices to many files, to satisfy the Savannah
     people.  There is no change in what is permitted.  Files that
     go to make up an output file are either public domain or else
     carry this additional wording, supplied by the Savannah people:
     "As a special exception, when this file is read by Lout when
     processing a Lout source document, you may use the result
     without restriction."

   Things not done

   It was suggested that using a version control system (in
     particular, svn) would be a good idea.  I thought about
     it but decided that there was too little change going on
     to make it worth my while, at the moment anyway.

Jeff Kingston