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Re: Use of Lout
From: |
Wolfram Kahl |
Subject: |
Re: Use of Lout |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 15:19:18 +0400 (MSD) |
Mark Carroll <address@hidden> writes:
> I've been meaning to get around to learning Lout for some time, and may
> have an incentive in the form of a forthcoming presentation. Can I ask
> what people think of how easy it is to use it to create diagrams? e.g.
> let's say we need a few boxes around linked by lines or arrows, with text
> in the boxes or on the lines, is that easy to do?
It is. I actually consider the comprehensive ``diagram programming''
capabilities of Lout one of its major strenths, and I started my
move from LaTeX to Lout with slides for presentations.
> Or is Lout better for
> more textual documents and expects you to include such diagrams with
> encapsulated PostScript or whatever?
It ALLOWS you to include such diagrams as EPS.
TeX allows you to do this, too, so what sometimes happens
is that I program a picture in Lout and include it in a LaTeX document
(which is written in LaTeX usually because of constraints outside my control).
Have fun!
Wolfram
P.S.: Look at your results in ghostview before printing ---
large part of Lout's diagram stuff goes directly in the PostScript file,
so errors may show up only when running the PostScript.
Only print on printers with LOTS of memory.