Directory lout/doc/user This directory contains the Lout source files for the User's Guide to the Lout Document Formatting System. A copy of the final PostScript output file (A4 paper size) is stored at "ftp://ftp.it.usyd.edu.au/jeff/lout/lout-3.40.user.ps.gz". To produce the Guide yourself, type the command lout -r5 all > user.ps in this directory. The -r5 flag causes Lout to run over the document five times. This is needed to completely resolve all cross references, although a readable PostScript file would be produced after one run if -r was omitted. Auxiliary files with .li and .ld suffixes will be created in this directory. Slight changes (e.g. to Letter paper size) could easily cause the number of required runs to increase. I've kept it down to 5 by rewriting to eliminate cases where the number of pages consumed by a chapter varies from run to run. The first run will produce a large number of error messages, nearly all beginning with "unresolved cross reference". These should gradually go away on later runs. The following shows the error message output on the fifth run for A4 size printing: lout: : lout -r beginning run 5: lout file "gra_tick" (from "gra" line 38, from "all" line 46): 234,1: 23.7c object too high for 23.6c space; @Scale inserted lout file "gra_summ" (from "gra" line 44, from "all" line 46): 10,1: 25.7c object too high for 23.6c space; @Scale inserted lout file "prg_tabs" (from "prg" line 152, from "all" line 48): 66,23: prg2lout 2,1: program text ended within comment 68,35: prg2lout 2,1: program text ended within comment The first two warnings are about large tables that had to be scaled down slightly to fit on the page. The last two warnings point to two places where a C program text ended inside a comment, which in these cases was deliberate. If you set the document in Letter size paper, you will get a somewhat different set of warning messages. Optimal page breaking has been turned off for this document owing to failure to converge, caused by footnotes and floating figures close to large unbreakable displays. Jeffrey H. Kingston 26 June 2013