Re: long scroll with no page breaks

[Joe Beach]

Hi Vadim,

It looks like you might be missing the line

//

between the @Document settings and the @Text @Begin. See page 71 of teh 
user manual for lout 3.33. I don't know the details of what it does 
internally in lout, but it is necessary. Also, are you marking your 
paragraphs with @LP or some other paragraph tag?

Joe

Vadim Nasardinov wrote:
> I saw Lout mentioned on LtU in
> http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2419 a couple of weeks ago.  Since
> it is included in Fedora 7, it was easy to take a quick look at it.
>
> I'm still working my way through the User's Guide and I'm sure it
> answers the question I'm about to ask, but I've been unable to find
> the answer on my own.  I'm sure I'll figure it out as soon as I post
> this message and feel stupid afterwards for asking such a dumb
> question, but...
>
> For the life of me, I can't figure out how to make lout introduce page
> breaks.  What I mean is, I have two pages worth of text.  When I
> compile my sample document, lout produces a PostScript file that looks
> like a single long scroll.  Evince, the PostScript/PDF viewer that
> ships in Fedora, describes the document properties like so:
>
>   Creator:         Basser Lout Version 3.30 (October 2004)
>   Format:          PostScript
>   Number of Pages: 1
>   Paper Size:      8.26 x 23.39 in
>
> I'd rather have two separate pages 8.25 x 11 inches each.
>
> My document looks like so (sans the leading pipe sybmols "|"):
>
>  | @SysInclude{doc}
>  | @Document
>  |   @InitialFont{Times Base 11p}
>  |   @InitialLanguage{French}
>  | @Text @Begin
>  |
>  | [... 33 paragraphs omitted for brevity ...]
>  |
>  | @End @Text
>
> I compile this file like so:
>
>   lout foo.lout > foo.ps
>
> What am I missing?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Vadim

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Joe Beach
Assistant Research Professor
Physics Department
Colorado School of Mines