Lout Essays

Some of my postings to the mailing list are collected here for ease of reference.

Automatically classifying pages in a classified document (secret, top secret, etc).

Spatial xrefs brought to you by galleys. (This worked at the time I wrote it, I haven't tested it with newer versions.)

A scoping rules example and another one.

Symbols as modules. Use defaults for fun and profit.

Text around illustration.

How to use horizontal galleys to flow text around objects. There was also a short follow-up.

Using fonts with Lout

The part about fontdef is out of date, as Lout now uses a @FontDef database, but that's only a surface syntactic change.

Making calendar for a month.

Another exmaple of using galleys.

Bug in kerning data of BlueSky CM (a.k.a. TeX) fonts in Type1 format.

If you want to use Computer Modern fonts in Type1 format with Lout, beware of this problem.

How to visualize marks of an object.

Simple but effective debugging aid.