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Lout probably needs at least 2 megabytes of memory, and ixemul.library.
I also bet it needs a pretty hefty stack as well. Haven't torture tested
this part, though.
To install lout:
unpack the archive, (which you've obviously done, otherwise
you couldn't be reading this...) into a nice resting place
move the lout binary to some convenient place, like c:
add an assign to your user-startup that points lout: to the
directory you unpacked the archive in
To run lout:
there are some large lout documents in the doc directory.
go to one of them (tr.eq is a fine one)
type 'lout setup s? -ooutfile'. It takes three runs the first
time through, to satisfy all the references. After that, any
modifications only take one more run.
There are outfile.ps's in each of the tr.XXX directories, which contain
descriptions of Lout, a beginner's guide, documentation of the Fig and Eq
environments, and an overview.
I'll make the source code available to anyone that wants it. I will
"release" the source code as soon as the next version comes out. It
compiles almost without modification using gcc (thanks Marcus!) so
sources from Jeff are almost good enough.
Note: if you don't specify a -o<file> Lout spews the PostScript to
stdout. Unfortunately, gcc/ixemul currently doesn't separate stdout
from stderr, so unless there are no errors in the output (i.e. no
unresolved references) it's no good to just redirect lout's output
to a PostScript file, as Jeff does in many examples. Just a warning.
NoteAlso: there are a couple "unchecked" mallocs. Jeff knows about
them, and will clean them up in the next release which should be out
in a week or two. Until then, Lout may crash if you run out of memory.
Sorry about this.
If you have any problems running Lout on the Amiga, and think I can
help, feel free to email me --
dylan mcnamee
dylan@cs.washington.edu