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Re: Difference between lout-3.17 and lout-3.20


From: Jeffrey Howard Kingston
Subject: Re: Difference between lout-3.17 and lout-3.20
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 10:36:22 +0100

Thanks for this, I'll investigate it and make any appropriate changes
for the next release.

Jeff Kingston


On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, nijbhav wrote:

> Here I quote a paragraph from the User's guide Section 3.2 :
> 
> >>> In order to get a table of contents, it is necessary to use your
> own setup file (Section 4.1 explains how to do this)
> and to set the "@MakeContents" option within it to "Yes".  The table of
> contents will ordinarily appear beginning
> on the first page, but if the "@ContentsSeparate" option of
>  "@Report" is
> set to "Yes" it will appear on separate pages.  This is only
> effective if "@CoverSheet" is  "No", since a separate cover
> sheet and separate pages for the table of contents would leave nothing on
> the first page.  <<<
> 
>       The paragraph is same for both lout-3.17 and lout-3.20 but the
> behavior is different for each. Lout-3.20 allows a separate coversheet
> and separate contents page leaving the first page of report matter start
> with nothing.(i.e, starts from first section directly.)
> 
>       Doesn't the User's guide need to be changed accordingly? In my
> opinion, the present condition is more flexible as in some cases a
> separate coversheet and a separate contents page is more
> desirable.(atleast that is what we usually do in this part of the world.)
> The contents page, if separate, need not contain title, author etc. That
> may be moved to the next page.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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