FORM: A Text Formatting Program

摘要

The program *FORM is a text formatting program which prints the contents of PDS text files in paginated form. It is designed to provide great flexibility to the user. The user can have very little understanding of the capabilities of *FORM and yet still produce suitably formatted text. On the other hand, very personalized output can be obtained by exploiting the full potential of *FORM. The user has control of the following features (this is by no means an exhaustive list): MARGINS (for top, bottom, left, right); Length and Width of Page; Page Numbering; Line spacing; Headers and Footers; Filling of Text; Adjusting of Text; Different Specifications for Odd/Even Pages; Figures; Leaders and Trailers; Printing of Pages; Formatting Equations; Numbering Equations; Character String Substitution; Numerical Variable Substitution; User Defined Commands; Repeated Source Input; Printing on the MTS Xerox 9700 Page Printer; Character Fonts on Xerox 9700 and Epson FX-80; Outputting to LINC Tape for Later Printing.