lout 3.07

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH]

First of all, thanks a lot to Jeff for the great work!


My first impressions:

The man page don't document all new options. Neither do the -u (ask
for usage) option. I really would like that -u tells about everything
(including the -S safety option and the -V version option).


Scaling overwide paragraphs is a very good idea. May I suggest that
the warning message tells the scale factor?; eg instead of having (I'm
louting the user guide after changing some font size) 


lout file "ap_qck" (from "all" line 41):
   113,9: word @F { fixed-width font } horizontally scaled (too wide for 3.547c 
paragraph
)                                                   

I would prefer   

   113,9: word @F { fixed-width font } horizontally scaled 0.76 (too wide for 
3.547c paragraph)



I'm still missing argument passing options. I still would prefer
invoking Lout with

  lout -o myoutfile.ps address@hidden'{Times Base 10p}' all


  # (My shell requires the ' quotes) 


Perhaps Lout could put arguments into a @Arg predefined object, much
like @Moment is... Just a thought... Argument passing thru main's
argc, argv interface is standard ISO C, not a Unix specific stuff...




instead of editing the all file and then running

  lout -o myoutfile.ps all


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