Annotation of researchv10dc/cmd/movie/stills.def, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1:                Definition of Stills Language
        !             2: 
        !             3: USAGE
        !             4: typical troff preprocessor: converts its input language (bracketed by
        !             5:     .begin stills and .end) into pic, and passes all else through
        !             6: 
        !             7: STATEMENTS (A file and print are mandatory; all else optional.)
        !             8: 
        !             9: #   comment -- must be first nonblank character on line
        !            10: 
        !            11: view <name> <optional title, with blanks>
        !            12:     named views appear in order
        !            13:     if no view statements, all views are displayed
        !            14:     if title is enclosed in quotes, leading space is kept
        !            15:     if no title is given on a line, view name is used as a title
        !            16: 
        !            17: print statements (any number of the following forms)
        !            18:     print all                  Every click
        !            19:     print final                        End of file
        !            20:     print <clickname> all      All clicks of clickname
        !            21:     print <clickname> <int>+   Designated click numbers of clickname
        !            22: 
        !            23: Parameter settings
        !            24:     General form: <attribute> <value>
        !            25:        numeric values may be of form -n, n, +n, or missing (zero default)
        !            26:        all parameters reset to default at every begin statement
        !            27:     Attributes:
        !            28:        Mandatory: file
        !            29:            give file name as <basename>.s
        !            30:            stills develops .s to get .i, if needed
        !            31:        Text sizes: small medium big bigbig
        !            32:            ``small -2'' does a .ps -2 for small text
        !            33:        Line widths: solid fat fatfat
        !            34:            ``fat +4'' does a .ps +4 for fat lines
        !            35:        Directions: across down
        !            36:            ``across 5'' gives 5 time snapshots across the page; views go
        !            37:                top to bottom; across 0 is default
        !            38:            ``down'' or ``down 0'' gives as many snapshots as will fit down
        !            39:                an 8-inch page; views go left to right
        !            40:        Frame: frameht framewid margin
        !            41:            height and width in inches, default 1.5
        !            42:            margin is white space around data, default 0.05 = 5%
        !            43:        Optional parts: frames times
        !            44:            values are ``vis'' and ``invis''; default ``vis''
        !            45:            frames surround pictures; times are from print statements
        !            46: 
        !            47: WISH LIST
        !            48: New Parameter Settings
        !            49:     Spread between frames      
        !            50: Frame control like GRAP ``graph with'', both for layout within
        !            51:     time snapshots and positioning of new snapshot w.r.t. previous

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