Annotation of researchv10no/cmd/movie/stills.def, revision 1.1.1.1

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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