Re: newbie-questions

[Erich Hoffmann]

Hi all,


this is only to report what I did with your advice.


First, I updated from lout 3.12 to 3.24 by compiling from source (using
debian potato 2.2).

As Basile suggested there _is_ a lout_3.24-etc.deb package in the Debian
Sid distribution, but my potato complained about that package and
couldn't install it.  So I followed his hint to compile
lout_3.24.orig.tar.  At first the thing went as wrong as could be,  but
Lout 3.12 being part of the potato distribution I adopted the old paths
of 3.12 into the makefile (at the risk of messing everything up),
de-installed lout 3.12 and make-installed 3.24 with no problems at all,
except that it wasn't possible to lout an ascii-version of the user
manual.  (But ascii is my special whim, the user_manual.ps is more than
sufficient.)

Since then, the @Verbatim works fine.  As I deinstalled 3.12 and didn't
want to try anything before updating I can't say whether the -U flag
would have worked, the function as Uwe says being no longer a system
call.  Everything so far is perfect by now.  ¡Thanks a lot!

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Secondly, the two-column footnotes under a one-column text.

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Jeff Kingston wrote:

>I don't think you can do this with the standard packages at the moment.
>It should be fairly easy to add, though.  I'll look into it for the next
>release.  

That would be nice!  After what you wrote I think it better for me to
learn louting step by step lege artis and get the next release as soon
as possible.


Thanks again and greetings,

erich.