Re: Lout on Mac OS X

[Kein-Hong Man]

Dave Baldwin wrote:
> I have just downloaded and compiled Lout 3.35 as per the makefile.
> [snip]
> and tried to use it to recreate the user.ps
>
> The reported errors for the last run are:
>
>         : lout -r beginning run 6:
> lout file "str_indx" (from "str" line 16, from "all" line 38):
>     54,1: 0.3c object too high for 0.1c space; will try elsewhere
> lout file "gra_summ" (from "gra" line 44, from "all" line 46):
>     10,1: 24.1c object too high for 23.6c space; @Scale inserted
> lout file "prg_tabs" (from "prg" line 141, from "all" line 48):
>    66,23: prg2lout 2,1: program text ended within comment
>    68,35: prg2lout 2,1: program text ended within comment
>
> which are different than shown in the README in the lout-3.35/doc/user 
> directory.

No, that looks the same as what the README says.

> The .ps file cannot be converted to a pdf by the Preview application so 
> as a check I tried downloading the user.ps file mentioned in the README 
> file from the ftp site and this also fails to be converted, so maybe 
> this is a different problem.   The conversion process worked for an 
> earlier version of the document (3.25) so maybe this is the same problem 
> a has already been reported when converting with Acrobat?

Viewing on Ghostscript/Gsview (Win32) failed for me on several 
pages, but conversion works. Dunno about Mac.

> Anyhow, is the README out of date or has my installation gone wrong in 
> some way?

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia