Re: questions from Colin Klipsch

[Jeff Kingston]

(1) You need to "import @BasicSetup" if you are using any of the
    symbols of the BasicSetup package.  Since these include
    paragraph and list sysmbols and font change sysbols and
    boxes, you need this most of the time.

    Lout does have a global namespace, but the only names in
    it initially are the builtin symbols (@Font, @Break, etc.
    as found in the User's Guide).  If you use the supplied
    setup files, each adds one symbol to the global namespace
    (@BasicSetup, @DiagSetup, etc.) but then opens this symbol
    so that the exported symbols within it become available
    (@PP, @CurveBox, @Diag, or whatever).

(2) The more advanced @CurveBox symbol from the Diag package
    has options which should solve your keyboard key problem.

(3) There is no symbol in Lout which will change an upper case
    letter to a lower case one.  You would need to write a
    separate script (using Unix tr or similar) and link it
    into Lout using a @Filter parameter (see expert's guide).

(4) old-style numerals - this is essentially a font question.
    I don't know of any old-style numerals PostScript font,
    certainly they aren't common.

(5) how to install and use additional PostScript fonts?
    General description in Expert's Guide, then look at
    file include/fontdefs and font/* in the Lout distribution.

Jeff