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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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