10/13/77 Differences between compose and runoff This info file gives the differences between runoff and compose. A "title" response is recommended, followed by a "search" for the section of interest. The sections are not in any particular order. Title Delimiter: In order to implement free format header and footer blocks (allowing artwork and other text features), it is necessary to define a standard title part delimiter character in a manner similar to the Symbol Delimiter. This title part delimiter character is chosen as the vertical bar ("|") and may be changed by the user with the change-title-delimiter control. Any not beginning with the current title delimiter character will be rejected with a diagnostic message. Builtin Mapping: Ad -> AlignMode = "both" Ce -> -- CharsTable -> ExcepTable Charsw -> ExcepOpt ConvTable -> -- Date -> Date Device -> Device DeviceTable -> -- Eq -> -- Eqcnt -> Eqcnt ExtraMargin -> ExtraMargin Fi -> FillMode FileName -> FileName Filesw -> OutputFileOpt Foot -> Footcnt FootRef -> -- Fp -> -- Fr -> FootReset = "r" From -> From Ft -> FootnoteMode Hyphenating -> Hyphenating In -> Indent InputFileName -> InputFileName InputLines -> InputLines LinesLeft -> LinesLeft Ll -> PageWidth Lp -> -- Ma1 -> VMargTop Ma2 -> VMargHeader Ma3 -> VMargFooter Ma4 -> VMargBottom Ms -> LineSpace MultiplePagecount -> PageSpace NestingDepth -> InsertIndex Nl -> PageLine NNP -> NextPageNo NoFtNo -> FootReset = "u" NoPaging -> Galley Np -> PageNo PadLeft -> -- Parameter -> Parameter Passes -> Pass Pi -> PictureCount Pl -> PageLength Print -> Print Printersw > OutputFileOpt and Device = "ascii" PrintLineNumbers -> LineNumberOpt Roman -> -- Selsw -> -- SpecCh ->-> SymbolDelimiter Start -> -- Stopsw -> StopOpt TextRef -> -- Time -> Time To -> To TrTable -> TrTable Un -> Undent WaitOpt -> Waitsw Symbol Delimiter: The conventional use of the symbol delimiter (%) as a reference to the page counter has been removed; however, the remainder of the symbol delimiter parsing algorithm is unchanged from the algorithm used in runoff. This means that constructs for nesting and/or concatenation of variable values and literal strings should continue to work as they did for runoff. File Suffixes: .runoff -> .compin .runout -> .compout .chars -> .compx Control Arguments: -check, -ck -device {name}, -dv {name} ("ascii") -exception_graphics, -excep -from {n}, -fm {n} (1) -galley {n1}{,n2}, -gl {n1}{,n2} (1,end-of-file) -hyphenate {n}, -hyph {n}, -hph {n} (3) -indent {n}, -in {n} (0) -input_file path, -if path (path is required) -linespace {n}, -ls {n} (1) -noart, -noa -nofill, -nof -number, -nb -number_brief, -nbb -output_file {path}, -of {path} ([wd]>input_file.compout) -pages {n} {n,n}, -pgs {n} {n,n} (n is required) -parameter string, -pm string (string is required) -pass {n} (1) -stop, -sp -to {n} (end-of-file) -wait, -wt Control Mapping: .ad .alb .ar .srm ar .bp .brp .br .brf .cc .cdl .ce .bbe n .ch .tre .ds .ls 2 .ef .fle .eh .hle .eq .bbe n .ex .exc .fh .hlf .fi .fin .fo .fla .fr t .ftp .fr f .ftr .fr u .ftu .ft .bbf/.bef .gb .go .gf .go .he .hla .if .ifi .in .inl .la .la .li .bbl n .ll .pdw .m1 .vmt .m2 .vmh .m3 .vmf .m4 .vmb .ma .vmt/.vmb .mp .ps .ms .ls .na .all .ne .brn .nf .fif .of .flo .oh .hlo .op .brp o .pa .brp n|+_n .pi .bbp n .pl .pdl .rd .rd .ro .srm ro .sk .brs .sp .spb .sr .srv .ss .ls 1 .tr .trf .ts .ts .ty .ty .un .unl .ur .ur .wt .wt ----------------------------------------------------------- Historical Background This edition of the Multics software materials and documentation is provided and donated to Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Group BULL including BULL HN Information Systems Inc. as a contribution to computer science knowledge. This donation is made also to give evidence of the common contributions of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Laboratories, General Electric, Honeywell Information Systems Inc., Honeywell BULL Inc., Groupe BULL and BULL HN Information Systems Inc. to the development of this operating system. Multics development was initiated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Project MAC (1963-1970), renamed the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in the mid 1970s, under the leadership of Professor Fernando Jose Corbato. Users consider that Multics provided the best software architecture for managing computer hardware properly and for executing programs. Many subsequent operating systems incorporated Multics principles. Multics was distributed in 1975 to 2000 by Group Bull in Europe , and in the U.S. by Bull HN Information Systems Inc., as successor in interest by change in name only to Honeywell Bull Inc. and Honeywell Information Systems Inc. . ----------------------------------------------------------- Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute these programs and their documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,provided that the below copyright notice and historical background appear in all copies and that both the copyright notice and historical background and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the names of MIT, HIS, BULL or BULL HN not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the programs without specific prior written permission. Copyright 1972 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Honeywell Information Systems Inc. Copyright 2006 by BULL HN Information Systems Inc. Copyright 2006 by Bull SAS All Rights Reserved