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RUNOFF (version S1.4) -- DECUS Fall '83 Symposium Distribution


This submission is a further development of a version  of  RUNOFF  which
was  submitted  to  the  last  three symposia under this UIC ([307,50]).
(Earlier submissions were labeled as versions M3.0X and M3.0.)

This version of RUNOFF is currently supported by a Working Group of  the
RSX  Special  Interest  Group.   The  working  group intends to continue
adding features to this version of RUNOFF, including features  available
in  other versions "out there" and features not known to be available in
any version.

Features added since the Spring '83 submission are described in the file
CHANGES. as items 95-99.  Several bugs have  been  fixed.   The  notable
changes are:

   o  Added the ability to suspend processing of the input file and  get
      input  from  another  file.  When the secondary file is completed,
      processing of the original file resumes.

   o  Added the ability  to  limit  hyphenation  to  only  those  points
      spcified  in the input.  (This provides the ability to supress the
      algorithm RUNOFF normally uses for hyphenation.)

   o  Added the ability to have pages numbered consecutively  throughout
      a document even if the CHAPTER and APPENDIX commands are used.

   o  Reworked the processing of blank  lines  automatically  output  by
      commands  so  that  excessive blank lines are not output when such
      commands occur in succession.

   o  Added the ability to turn off the significance of all  the  RUNOFF
      "special characters."

   o  Fixed the processing of subpages so that subpage letters appear in
      the index and tables of contents.

   o  The default tabs are now set if no argument at all is supplied  to
      a TABS STOP command.

   o  During processing of LITERAL sections, each  page  mark  (formfeed
      character) in the input causes a new output page to be started.

README.2ND contains an annotated list of all  the  files  submitted  and
provides installation information.


Submitted by:   Chuck Spalding
		Adept Technology, Inc.
		1202 Charleston Road
		Mountain View, CA 94043

		(415) 965-0557

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