Re: response to Joerg Jung's posting

[Jeff Kingston]

Dear Lout listers,

>From Joerg's responses to my recent emails to the list:

> > I agree, and if I could go back in time I would work harder on this,
> > but at this late stage, fixing it is too hard, owing to the messiness
> > and fragility of the implementation.  Actually it's easy to fix on a
> > subset of kinds of figures (one-page figures for example), but not on
> > all kinds of figures.  This is why I have not incorporated the patch
> > for this from Mark Summerfield.
> 
> I understand, that a generic/clean final fixing for @DP is not possible
> due to several (historic) reasons. But, I think the unpredictable @DP
> between Captions and Figures/Tables/Floaters (depending on the chosen
> Location) should be replaced by // for consistency reasons.

This is too hard, owing to the messiness and fragility of the
implementation.

> >> User Guide: orragged vs outdent example -- no visible difference
> >> in the example?
> > 
> > Just chance.
> 
> Sorry, I do not understand this?

I mean, if I had chosen a different example, the results for orragged
vs outdent would have been different.

> I do not understand the problem here.
> I can see Lout is already in subversion on
> http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/trunk/?root=lout

I am not using it myself, that's the problem.

Jeff