FAQ (I know it's small, but it's a start.)

[rodrigo vanegas]

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So here's the FAQ.

                              Lout FAQ
                              --------

This mini-FAQ is maintained by Rodrigo Vanegas (address@hidden), who
also maintains the Lout mailing list.  You may suggest additions by
sending me mail.

1. What is Lout?

Lout is a document formatting system similar to LaTeX written by
Jeffrey Kingston (address@hidden) and made available by him for 
under the GNU GPL.  The latest version is available by ftp as

  ftp.cs.su.oz.au:jeff/lout.2.05.tar.Z


2. How does one get quotes (") or backslashes (\) in Lout?

Quotes are explained in the reference manual, section 2.1, apparently
not very successfully judging from the questions I get.

        To get this             You type this

            "                       \"
            \                       \\

but these things only work inside "...".  So the way to print quoted
strings in source code listings is like this (for example)

        puts("hello\n");        puts("\"hello\\n\"");

In other words, you replace the opening " by "\", you replace the
closing quote by \"", and any \ inside you replace by \\.



rodrigo