FUTURE RUNOFF PLANS
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     The  current  version  of  RNO  is currently lacking a number of features
which are in DSR or which the user community would dearly like to have.   Here
is a partial list which may be added in the future, or which have been contem-
plated and are rejected for the immediate future.  


     1.  PROPORTIONAL  SPACING  - This is a really big ticket item and while I
         have considered it, the problems are large.  If  supported  it  might
         not be possible to do it for any arbitrary printer.  It is definitely
         not planned as an enhancement in the forseeable future.  

     2.  .TEXT DEFERRED which would reserve text to be printed on a later page
         if necessary.  This is intended as a method of  reserving  space  for
         figures and putting captions under them.  

     3.  The  remaining  missing DSR commands are either conveniences or unne-
         cessary bells and whistles.  Some or all could be added  with  little
         overhead,  but  since  they  can  generally be done without they just
         might be.  They include:  
         a)  AUTOJUSTIFY - Maybe, but why ?  
         b)  AUTOTABLE - Probably not 
         c)  CONTROL CHARACTERS (can not be done at all) 
         d)  DATE / NO DATE - Probably not 
         e)  NO SUBTITLE - Maybe 
         f)  NUMBER RUNNING - This is irrelevant and unnecessary!!  
         g)  ENABLE/DISABLE BOLDING + FLAGS BOLD - Too much overhead.  
         h)  FLAGS PERIOD - Probably not 
         i)  FLAGS COMMENT - Probably not 
         j)  REPEAT - Probably not 
         k)  SET DATE/TIME - Probably not 
         l)  autoindexing via index flag - nice (but lots of work) 
         m)  KEEP/NO KEEP - Probably not 
         n)  SET LEVEL - Maybe 
         o)  XLOWER/XUPPER - Not unless autoindexing included 
         p)  Subindexing - Maybe (hooks exist) 
         q)  Double column index - Only as general multiple column package.  

                                                                  John Clement
                                                                    Bonner Lab
                                                               Rice University
                                                                  Houston, Tx.