BONNER LAB RUNOFF Page 1 AUTHOR: ------- --- VMS/RSX --- John Clement T. W. Bonner Lab Rice University P.O. Box 1892 Houston, Tx, 77251 Tel (713) 527-8101x2037 Bitnet: BONNER@RICE --- Rt-11 --- Robert Walraven Multiware, Inc. 437 F Street Davis, CA 95616 BONNER LAB RUNOFF Page 2 ABSTRACT Bonner Lab Runoff (RNO) Bonner Lab Runoff is a text formatter that, when used with your favorite editor, makes a complete word processor. Its syntax is almost a complete emulation of DSR (Digital Standard Runoff) and it is very compatible with previous versions of Runoff. The document and help file for this version can also be used for DSR. The intent of this program is to support com- plete scientific word processing to produce publication quality output. It has been used to produce thesis, progress reports, and scientific pa- pers here at Rice University. This version allows complete control of any special printer available via user definable escape sequences. In addition a macro facility allows text or sequences of commands to be abbreviated to a single label. If the printer has the correct features, then variable spacing,subscripting, superscripting, and equation formatting are possible. By properly defin- ing escape sequences the user can support different printers in a tran- sparent fashion. In other words the same input text will print in identical fashion on different printers with different control codes and escape sequences. Table of contents, indexing and sub-indexing are all supported. A variety of LAYOUT and STYLE commands can completely change the look of the pages. Table layout is simplified by right justified and 'decimal' justified tabs. Permanent margins that apply to the page headers are available. These simplify the setting of header and text margins. All special characters are redefinable. The user can define new com- mands, and text macros. By defining commands you can make this program resemble other text formatters, or other versions of RUNOFF. You may de- fine numeric symbols to facilitate constructing lists of arbitrary items. These allow page and section references. A 2 pass option allows forward references to symbols defined later in the text. This program runs under VMS-native mode, RSX, IAS, RT11, TSX, P/OS, and RSTS. It occupies a minimum of 30 to 37 kbytes depending on the operat- ing system. Complete documentation, help files, and test files are sup- plied with the program for all operating systems. BONNER LAB RUNOFF Page 3 Distribution This distribution contains all files necessary for building RNO for any supported operating systems. Nearly All file names are 6 characters or less to acommodate all operating systems. Once you have built the exe- cutable image, you can use it to generate documentation and help files for your operating system. The tape contents are: 1. [RUNOFF.DOC] - Documentation o BUILD.DOC contains instructions for building the program and documentation. o RNOBUG.DOC lists bugs that have been fixed. o CHANGE.DOC lists the latest enhancements. o RUNOFF.DOC is the full document for VMS native mode version. This is not distributed on small kits, but is included with mag tape kits. o RUNOFF.HLP is the full help file for VMS native mode ver- sion. o INTERNALS.DOC is for wizards only. 2. [RUNOFF.RNO] - text sources and command files for building do- cumentation 3. [RUNOFF.MAC] - source code and command files for building RUN- OFF. 4. [RUNOFF.VMS] - RUNOFF.EXE is the VMS native mode executable im- age. All other users must build RNO. 5. [RUNOFF.TST] - *.TST are test files for various RNO features. *.RNO are prefix files for various printers and terminals. Changes since last release 1. .DISPLAY TOC PAGE - Controls TOC page number format 2. Native mode version has greater range for all numbers (2**24). 3. Fixed bug so that nulls are legal in escape sequences. 4. New more readable document. 5. .LIST n 'string', .DISPLAY ELEMENTS 'pre' ... - string may now be several chars. This is useful for creating bullets etc. 6. VMS native mode version has full functionality including full dynamic memory, and 2 pass mode. 7. RT-11 version now has .REQ BINARY command. 8. Misc bug fixes. I would like to extend thanks to: 1. Robert Walraven, RT-11 Sig - He provided a new manual, and also a list of bugs, with suggested changes to fix them. 2. Charles Sandman, Shell Oil Co -His work on the native mode ver- sion yielded much faster running code. He also developed the parser, VMS dynamic memory, and VMS 2 pass mode.