Lout FAQ/HOWTO

by Eric Marsden emarsden@mail.dotcom.fr

1. Introduction

2. What is Lout?

• 2.1 What platforms does Lout run on?
• 2.2 Where can I get Lout?
• 2.3 So is Lout like a word processor?
• 2.4 Why use Lout instead of LaTeX or troff?

3. Lout Packages

• 3.1 Can I produce HTML from my Lout documents?
• 3.2 Is there an Emacs mode for Lout?
• 3.3 Is there an archive of user-contributed document formats?

4. Lout Problems

• 4.1 Lout produces ugly output in Ghostscript
• 4.2 Spaces using Latin2 fonts
• 4.3 Acrobat Reader says "Bad /BBox in font"
• 4.4 Huge page sizes
• 4.5 Unresolved cross references on Linux

5. How do I ... ?

• 5.1 How do I get quotes (") or backslashes (\) in Lout?
• 5.2 How do I use accented characters in Lout?
• 5.3 How do I print only a selection of pages of a Lout document?
• 5.4 Adding new fonts
• 5.5 Embedding Postscript fonts in a document
• 5.6 Flowing text across columns
• 5.7 Using BibTeX databases
• 5.8 LaTeXisms
• 5.9 Related resources
• 5.10 Whah! I want Lout to do this! Lout shouldn't work this way!

6. Simple Examples

7. Advanced Examples

8. Further information