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.c;ABSTRACT
.s.c;Bonner Lab Runoff (RNO)
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Bonner Lab Runoff is a text formatter which when used with your favorite
editor makes a complete word processor.  Its syntax is almost a complete
emulation of DSR (Digital Standard Runoff) and it is very compatible with
previous versions of Runoff. The intent of this program is to support complete
scientific word processing to produce publication quality output. It has been
used to produce thesis, progress reports, and scientific papers here at Rice
University. 
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This version allows complete control of any special printer available via user
definable escape sequences.  In addition a macro facility allows text or
sequences of commands to be abbreviated to a single label. If the printer has
the correct features then variable spacing,subscripting, superscripting, and
equation formatting are possible. By properly defining escape sequences the
user may support different printers in a transparent fashion.  In other words
the same input text will print in identical fashion on different printers with
different control codes and escape sequences. 
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Table of contents, indexing and sub-indexing are all supported. Multiple table
of contents or multiple indexing may be constructed from the available
commands. A variety of LAYOUT and STYLE commands may completely change the
look of the pages.  Table layout is simplified by right justified and
'decimal' justified tabs. Permanent margins which apply to the page headers
are available. These simplify the setting of header and text margins. 
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This runs under VMS, RSX, IAS, RT11, TSX, and probably RSTS.
RNO occupies a minimum of 31 to 37 kbytes depending on the
operating system.