New features introduced in Version 3.04

    Bug fixes
    Underlining
    Small capitals now work properly
    More flexible reference formatting setup file options
    List items and displays now break across page boundaries
    Quick reference guide (Appendix A, User's Guide)
    Version of @Eq that uses TeX's fonts
    Numbered list items can be tagged and referred to using @NumberOf
    Multi-paragraph figure captions and multi-page figures
    Various micro changes to @Eq to improve appearance
    Merged index entries, and better guidance on how to make an index
    DOS portability (I hope), still working on Mac portability
    Eiffel programming language printing
    Multi-word tags and sorting keys permitted
    Margin notes
    `Bypass' symbols (fewer passes for computer-generated Lout source)
    Arbitrary chapter heading and part heading layouts
    Viewers like GhostView now show real page numbers
    @Sup and @Sub symbols (similar to sup and sub in equations)
    Slovenian language
    ANSI C (getting closer and closer...)
    @IncludeGraphic will now accept a compressed file e.g. filename.eps.gz
    @Verbatim { ... } like in LaTeX.
 
New features introduced in Version 3.05

    Bug fixes
    ANSI C (getting very very close...)
    Removed call to system("sort"), which was causing porting problems
    Optional list of tables and list of figures in books
    More options and setup file options for fine-tuning tables and figures
    Package for printing bar codes (see software directory)
    Moved initialization of non-English error message files into makefile

New features introduced in Version 3.06

    Bug fixes
    Czech
    Plain text manual pages for people without troff

New features introduced in Version 3.07

    Bug fixes
    @URL field added to references
    @LongFootNote, @LongEndNote, @LongCaption stupidity removed
    Matrices and delimiters in equations improved
    Captions to figures and tables may be above or below
    Theorems, definitions, claims, propositions, lemmas, corollaries, examples
    Words like "Chapter" and "Theorem" may be changed by the user
    Numbered displays have been re-implemented and are much improved
    @RightDisplay symbol
    @F symbol added as synonym for { Courier Base -1p } @Font ...
    Ability to set simple document options in the command line
    Horizontal galleys (for expert users)
    Drop capitals (large capitals in top left corner of paragraph)
    Optimal body text breaking (makes large in-line displays practical)
    More flexible control of the format of chapter, section etc. headings
    Option for starting chapters etc. on any, odd, or even pages
    Command line option -S for safe execution (prohibits calls to system())
    Symbols for up to three independent indexes at the end of each document
    References work now when the citation point is after the reference list
    Placement of objects at arbitrary points on the page
    Reference lists may be before or after appendices
    Choice of nine locations for figures and tables (page top, foot, etc.)
    Numbering of footnotes works properly in all unusual cases now
    Database index files created afresh automatically if system has stat()
    Choice of rules for spaces between words (like Lout, troff, or TeX)
    Spacing in equations (both eq and teq) further improved
    Kerning of accented characters deduced from corresponding unaccented ones
    @NotRevealed symbol (for expert users)
    Another, hopefully better attempt made at Latin-2 formatting

New features introduced in Version 3.08

    Bug fixes


Jeff Kingston
8 May 1996
