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.
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Distribution
This distribution contains all files necessary for building Bonner Lab
RUNOFF for any supported operating systems. Nearly all file names are 6
characters or less to acommodate all operating systems. Once you have
built the executable image, you can use it to generate documentation and
help files for your operating system. Several files are included to do-
cument this version.
1. BUILD.DOC contains instructions for building the program and do-
cumentation.
2. RNOBUG.DOC lists bugs that have been fixed.
3. CHANGE.DOC lists the latest enhancements.
4. RUNOFF.DOC is the full document for VMS. This is not distri-
buted on small (floppy) kits, but is included with mag tape
kits.
5. INTERNALS.DOC is for wizards only.
6. RNO.EXE is the VMS executable image. All other users must build
RNO.