reid@decwrl (Brian Reid) (03/03/86)
RECIPES(5) UNIX Programmer's Manual RECIPES(5) NAME recipes - USENET Cookbook (mod.recipes) format and submit- ting procedure. SYNOPSIS Mail your recipe to mod-recipes@glacier. Try not to plagiar- ize. If you want to put in your own troff commands, use the Unix manual macros. DESCRIPTION Mod.recipes is a ``moderated newsgroup''. This means that you mail your submissions to the moderator, and he distri- butes them. The moderator's mailbox is glacier!mod-recipes, if you believe in that kind of address, or {hplabs, decwrl, bellcore, pyramid, sun}!glacier!mod-recipes if you believe in the other kind of address. The address mod-recipes@SU-Glacier.ARPA also works, if you know how to mail to it. If your netnews administrator has set things up properly and if you are running the right news software, you can just post to mod.recipes as you would any other group, but your posting will be mailed to the moderator insted of being placed directly in the newsgroup. HOW TO STRUCTURE A RECIPE Every recipe that goes out will be formatted with a small set of troff commands. If you don't know any troff, then just send the text of your recipe. If you can do the format- ting yourself, then great! That will save the editor a lot of time. Some hints for how to do it are in a later section of this documentation. If you don't know about xroff/troff/nroff but you do want to be helpful, then you can help a lot by doing this: 1 Put your recipe in the standard sequence: - Title and 1-line description - Introductory commentary, explaining (if possi- ble) where you got the recipe from. - list of ingredients, using "Tbsp.", "tsp.", "cup", "oz", and "lb", - Numbered sequence of recipe steps. - Notes (if any). Comments on how you like to make it, or ingredient availability, etc. - Your ``signature''. This should include your name and net address, the organization that you are a part of, and the name of the city it is in. It can also include other frivolity or foolishness if you like; I'll include as much of it as will fit on the page. 2 Don't put any tab characters (^I) in the file if you can possibly avoid it. They do strange things on typesetters. 3 If you are a troff wizard, please don't use any of that wizardry in these recipes. If you stick to the set of commands used in the Unix manual macros (see man(7)), and the set of commands that are part of the USENET Cookbook package (see following section), then things should work. You can also submit evaluations, modifications, suggestions, or bug-fixes to existing recipes. COPYRIGHT NOTES It's important that you tell us where you got the recipe from. It's ok if you cribbed it from a book or magazine or newspaper, but if you copy exactly the words that you found there, there might be a problem with copyright violation. While the main purpose of the USENET cookbook is to let us all make our own custom cookbooks, we can't ignore the real- ity of the copyright law. Surely you have noticed that every modern book says ``No part of this publication may be repro- duced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, ..., or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher.'' Copyright law is complex, and only a lawyer can reliably advise you on whether or not you are violating it, but in general if you rewrite a recipe, in your own words, even if you don't change the recipe, then you are not infringing the copyright by submitting that recipe to the network. The copyright is on the words that explain the recipe, and not the recipe itself. The USENET Cookbook itself is copyrighted. Every recipe is sent out with a copyright notice, and the macros that print the cookbooks add a copyright notice to the bottom of each page. The purpose of this is to prevent commercial use of the USENET Cookbook. CATEGORY CODES M Main dish SL Salad A Appetizer or snack SP Soup B Bread/cake/pasta D Dessert L Beverage (Liquid) V Vegetable dish The suffix ``V'' on any category means that it is vegetarian; for example, a vegetarian main dish recipe would be marked ``MV''. SEE ALSO cookbook(1), rn(1) AUTHOR Brian Reid is the organizer of mod.recipes, the editor of the USENET Cookbook, and the author of most of the software. Printed 2/28/86 27 Nov 85 4
reid@decwrl.UUCP (06/30/86)
RECIPES(5) UNIX Programmer's Manual RECIPES(5) NAME recipes - USENET Cookbook (mod.recipes) format and submit- ting procedure. SYNOPSIS Mail your recipe to mod-recipes@decwrl. Try not to plagiar- ize. If you want to put in your own troff commands, use the Unix manual macros. DESCRIPTION Mod.recipes is a ``moderated newsgroup''. This means that you mail your submissions to the moderator, and he distri- butes them. The moderator's mailbox is decwrl!mod-recipes, if you believe in that kind of address, or {ihnp4, decvax, ucbvax, glacier}!decwrl!mod-recipes if you believe in the other kind of address. The address mod-recipes@decwrl.DEC.COM also works, if you know how to mail to it. If your netnews administrator has set things up properly and if you are running the right news software, you can just post to mod.recipes as you would any other group, but your posting will be mailed to the moderator insted of being placed directly in the newsgroup. HOW TO STRUCTURE A RECIPE Every recipe that goes out will be formatted with a small set of troff commands. If you don't know any troff, then just send the text of your recipe. If you can do the format- ting yourself, then please do! That will save the editor a lot of time, and your recipe will go out sooner. Some hints for how to do it are in a later section of this document. If you don't know about xroff/troff/nroff but you do want to be helpful, then you can help a lot by doing these things: (1) Put your recipe in the standard sequence: (2) Don't put any tab characters (^I) in the file if you can possibly avoid it. They do strange things on typesetters. (3) If you are a troff wizard, please don't use any of that wizardry in these recipes. If you stick to the set of commands used in the Unix manual macros (see man(7)), and the set of commands that are part of the USENET Cookbook package (see following section), then things should work OK. There are plenty of places in troff where you can get away with not using quotes around macro arguments. Please use quotes, even when they are redundant, such as in ``.IG "1" "onion"'' This is because the indexing and cross-referencing programs expect to find the quotes, even though troff can work without them. The ``standard sequence'' for a recipe is this: (a) Title and 1-line description (b) Introductory commentary, explaining (if possible) where you got the recipe from and what you like about it. (c) List of ingredients, using ``Tbsp'', ``tsp'', ``cup'', ``oz'', and ``lb'' for English units, or ``ml'', ``dl'', ``l'', ``g'', and ``kg'' for metric units. Stay away from ``pint'', ``quart'', and ``gallon'', because they have different meanings in different countries. The ingredients should be listed in the order they will be used. Don't capitalize ingredient names unless they are proper nouns. Try to avoid terms like ``1 box'' or ``1 can'' or ``1 package'', because packaging conven- tions vary widely from place to place. If you must say ``1 can of soup'', then at least tell me how big you think a can of soup is. (d) Numbered sequence of recipe steps. Be very careful to mention every ingredient somewhere. The most common mistake made in recipes is to omit one or more ingredients from the procedure steps. (e) Notes (if any). Comments on how you like to make it, ingredient availability, comments about specific brands, etc. (f) Your ``signature''. This should include your name and net address, the organization that you are a part of, and the name of the city it is in. It can also include other frivolity or foolishness if you like; I'll include as much of it as will fit on the page. COPYRIGHT NOTES Tell us where you got the recipe from. It's ok if you cribbed it from a book or magazine or newspaper, but if you copy exactly the words that you found there, there might be a problem with copyright violation. The copyright of a recipe is not on the formula, but on the words. If you have copied the words out of a copyrighted cookbook, then you are infringing its copyright. While the main purpose of the USENET cookbook is to let us all make our own custom cookbooks, we can't ignore the real- ity of the copyright law. Surely you have noticed that every modern book says ``No part of this publication may be repro- duced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, ..., or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher.'' Copyright law is complex, and only a lawyer who specializes in copyright can reliably advise you on whether or not you are violating it, but in general if you rewrite a recipe, in your own words, even if you don't change the formula, then you are not infringing the copyright by submitting that recipe to the network. The copyright is on the words that explain the recipe, and on the title of the recipe, not the formula itself. The USENET Cookbook itself is copyrighted. Every recipe is sent out with a copyright notice, and the macros that print the cookbooks add a copyright notice to the bottom of each page. The purpose of this is to prevent unauthorized commer- cial use of the USENET Cookbook. CATEGORY CODES M Main dish SL Salad A Appetizer or snack SP Soup B Bread/cake/pasta D Dessert L Beverage (Liquid) V Vegetable dish The suffix ``V'' on any category means that it is vegetarian; for example, a vegetarian main dish recipe would be marked ``MV''. SEE ALSO cookbook(1), rn(1) AUTHOR Brian Reid, DEC Western Research Laboratory
reid@decwrl (Brian Reid) (11/28/86)
RECIPES(5) UNIX Programmer's Manual RECIPES(5) NAME recipes - USENET Cookbook (mod.recipes) format and submit- ting procedure. SYNOPSIS Mail your recipe to mod-recipes@decwrl. Try not to plagiar- ize. If you want to put in your own troff commands, use the Unix manual macros. DESCRIPTION Mod.recipes is a ``moderated newsgroup''. This means that you mail your submissions to the moderator, and he distri- butes them. The moderator's mailbox is decwrl!mod-recipes, if you believe in that kind of address, or {ihnp4, decvax, ucbvax, glacier}!decwrl!mod-recipes if you believe in the other kind of address. The address mod-recipes@decwrl.DEC.COM also works, if you know how to mail to it. If your netnews administrator has set things up properly and if you are running the right news software, you can just post to mod.recipes as you would any other group, but your posting will be mailed to the moderator insted of being placed directly in the newsgroup. HOW TO STRUCTURE A RECIPE Every recipe that goes out will be formatted with a small set of troff commands. If you don't know any troff, then just send the text of your recipe. If you can do the format- ting yourself, then please do! That will save the editor a lot of time, and your recipe will go out sooner. Some hints for how to do it are in a later section of this document. If you don't know about xroff/troff/nroff but you do want to be helpful, then you can help a lot by doing these things: (1) Put your recipe in the standard sequence: (2) Don't put any tab characters (^I) in the file if you can possibly avoid it. They do strange things on typesetters. (3) If you are a troff wizard, please don't use any of that wizardry in these recipes. If you stick to the set of commands used in the Unix manual macros (see man(7)), and the set of commands that are part of the USENET Cookbook package (see following section), then things should work OK. There are plenty of places in troff where you can get away with not using quotes around macro arguments. Please use quotes, even when they are redundant, such as in ``.IG "1" "onion"'' This is because the indexing and cross-referencing programs expect to find the quotes, even though troff can work without them. The ``standard sequence'' for a recipe is this: (a) Title and 1-line description (b) Introductory commentary, explaining (if possible) where you got the recipe from and what you like about it. (c) List of ingredients, using ``Tbsp'', ``tsp'', ``cup'', ``oz'', and ``lb'' for English units, or ``ml'', ``dl'', ``l'', ``g'', and ``kg'' for metric units. Stay away from ``pint'', ``quart'', and ``gallon'', because they have different meanings in different countries. The ingredients should be listed in the order they will be used. Don't capitalize ingredient names unless they are proper nouns. Try to avoid terms like ``1 box'' or ``1 can'' or ``1 package'', because packaging conven- tions vary widely from place to place. If you must say ``1 can of soup'', then at least tell me how big you think a can of soup is. (d) Numbered sequence of recipe steps. Be very careful to mention every ingredient somewhere. The most common mistake made in recipes is to omit one or more ingredients from the procedure steps. (e) Notes (if any). Comments on how you like to make it, ingredient availability, comments about specific brands, etc. (f) Your ``signature''. This should include your name and net address, the organization that you are a part of, and the name of the city it is in. It can also include other frivolity or foolishness if you like; I'll include as much of it as will fit on the page. COPYRIGHT NOTES Tell us where you got the recipe from. It's ok if you cribbed it from a book or magazine or newspaper, but if you copy exactly the words that you found there, there might be a problem with copyright violation. The copyright of a recipe is not on the formula, but on the words. If you have copied the words out of a copyrighted cookbook, then you are infringing its copyright. While the main purpose of the USENET cookbook is to let us all make our own custom cookbooks, we can't ignore the real- ity of the copyright law. Surely you have noticed that every modern book says ``No part of this publication may be repro- duced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, ..., or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher.'' Copyright law is complex, and only a lawyer who specializes in copyright can reliably advise you on whether or not you are violating it, but in general if you rewrite a recipe, in your own words, even if you don't change the formula, then you are not infringing the copyright by submitting that recipe to the network. The copyright is on the words that explain the recipe, and on the title of the recipe, not the formula itself. The USENET Cookbook itself is copyrighted. Every recipe is sent out with a copyright notice, and the macros that print the cookbooks add a copyright notice to the bottom of each page. The purpose of this is to prevent unauthorized commer- cial use of the USENET Cookbook. CATEGORY CODES M Main dish SL Salad A Appetizer or snack SP Soup B Bread/cake/pasta D Dessert L Beverage (Liquid) V Vegetable dish The suffix ``V'' on any category means that it is vegetarian; for example, a vegetarian main dish recipe would be marked ``MV''. SEE ALSO cookbook(1), rn(1) AUTHOR Brian Reid, DEC Western Research Laboratory
recipes@decwrl.UUCP (02/28/87)
RECIPES(5) UNIX Programmer's Manual RECIPES(5) NAME recipes - USENET Cookbook (mod.recipes) format and submit- ting procedure. SYNOPSIS Mail your recipe to mod-recipes@decwrl. Try not to plagiar- ize. If you want to put in your own troff commands, use the Unix manual macros. DESCRIPTION Mod.recipes is a ``moderated newsgroup''. This means that you mail your submissions to the moderator, and he distri- butes them. The moderator's mailbox is decwrl!mod-recipes, if you believe in that kind of address, or {ihnp4, decvax, ucbvax, glacier}!decwrl!mod-recipes if you believe in the other kind of address. The address mod-recipes@decwrl.DEC.COM also works, if you know how to mail to it. If your netnews administrator has set things up properly and if you are running the right news software, you can just post to mod.recipes as you would any other group, but your posting will be mailed to the moderator insted of being placed directly in the newsgroup. HOW TO FORMAT A RECIPE Every recipe that goes out will be formatted with a small set of troff commands. If you don't know any troff, then just send the text of your recipe. If you can do the format- ting yourself, then please do! That will save the editor a lot of time, and your recipe will go out sooner. Some hints for how to do it are in a later section of this document. If you don't know about xroff/troff/nroff but you do want to be helpful, then you can help a lot by doing these things: (1) Put your recipe in the standard sequence: (2) Don't put any tab characters (^I) in the file if you can possibly avoid it. They do strange things on typesetters. (3) If you are a troff wizard, please don't use any of that wizardry in these recipes. If you stick to the set of commands used in the Unix manual macros (see man(7)), and the set of commands that are part of the USENET Cookbook package (see following section), then things should work OK. There are plenty of places in troff where you can get away with not using quotes around macro arguments. Please use quotes, even when they are redundant, such as in ``.IG "1" "onion"'' This is because the indexing and cross-referencing programs expect to find the quotes, even though troff can work without them. HOW TO WRITE A RECIPE Please try to put your recipe in the standard sequence. Dif- ferent cookbooks use different standards. This is the sequence that the USENET Cookbook uses. (a) Title and 1-line description. The 1-line descrip- tion will be used to index the recipe, so make it as descriptive as possible. Avoid words like ``delicious'' or ``yummy''. We expect all of these recipes to be delicious. (b) Introductory commentary, explaining (if possible) where you got the recipe from and what you like about it. If you got the recipe from a cookbook, give the title and author of that cookbook. (c) List of ingredients, using ``Tbsp'', ``tsp'', ``cup'', ``oz'', and ``lb'' for English units, or ``ml'', ``dl'', ``l'', ``g'', and ``kg'' for metric units. Stay away from ``pint'', ``quart'', and ``gallon'', because they have different mean- ings in different countries. Do not use 1-letter abbreviations for US measures: don't use "c" for "cup" or "T" for "Tbsp". An ``oz'' is a The ingredients should be listed in the order they will be used. Don't capitalize ingredient names unless they are proper nouns. Avoid terms like ``1 box'' or ``1 can'' or ``1 package'', because pack- aging conventions vary widely from place to place. If you must say ``1 can of soup'', then at least tell me how big you think a can of soup is. (d) Numbered sequence of recipe steps. Be very careful to mention every ingredient somewhere. The most common mistake made in recipes is to omit one or more ingredients from the procedure steps. (e) Notes (if any). Comments on how you like to make it, ingredient availability, comments about specific brands, etc. (f) Your ``signature''. This should include your name and net address, the organization that you are a part of, and the name of the city it is in. It can also include other frivolity or foolishness if you like; I'll include as much of it as will fit on the page unless it is offensive. COPYRIGHT NOTES Tell us where you got the recipe from. It's ok if you cribbed it from a book or magazine or newspaper, but if you copy exactly the words that you found there, there might be a problem with copyright violation. The copyright of a recipe is not on the formula, but on the words. If you have copied the words out of a copyrighted cookbook, then you are infringing its copyright. While the main purpose of the USENET cookbook is to let us all make our own custom cookbooks, we can't ignore the real- ity of the copyright law. Surely you have noticed that every modern book says ``No part of this publication may be repro- duced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, ..., or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher.'' Copyright law is complex, and only a lawyer who specializes in copyright can reliably advise you on whether or not you are violating it, but in general if you rewrite a recipe, in your own words, even if you don't change the formula, then you are not infringing the copyright by submitting that recipe to the network. The copyright is on the words that explain the recipe, and on the title of the recipe, not the formula itself. The USENET Cookbook itself is copyrighted. Every recipe is sent out with a copyright notice, and the macros that print the cookbooks add a copyright notice to the bottom of each page. The purpose of this is to prevent unauthorized commer- cial use of the USENET Cookbook. CATEGORY CODES M Main dish SL Salad A Appetizer or snack SP Soup B Bread/cake/pasta D Dessert L Beverage (Liquid) V Vegetable dish The suffix ``V'' on any category means that it is vegetarian; for example, a vegetarian main dish recipe would be marked ``MV''. SEE ALSO cookbook(1), rn(1) AUTHOR Brian Reid, DEC Western Research Laboratory
recipes@decwrl.UUCP (03/28/87)
RECIPES(5) UNIX Programmer's Manual RECIPES(5) NAME recipes - USENET Cookbook (mod.recipes) format and submit- ting procedure. SYNOPSIS Mail your recipe to mod-recipes@decwrl. Try not to plagiar- ize. If you want to put in your own troff commands, use the Unix manual macros. DESCRIPTION Mod.recipes is a ``moderated newsgroup''. This means that you mail your submissions to the moderator, and he distri- butes them. The moderator's mailbox is decwrl!mod-recipes, if you believe in that kind of address, or {ihnp4, decvax, ucbvax, glacier}!decwrl!mod-recipes if you believe in the other kind of address. The address mod-recipes@decwrl.DEC.COM also works, if you know how to mail to it. If your netnews administrator has set things up properly and if you are running the right news software, you can just post to mod.recipes as you would any other group, but your posting will be mailed to the moderator insted of being placed directly in the newsgroup. HOW TO FORMAT A RECIPE Every recipe that goes out will be formatted with a small set of troff commands. If you don't know any troff, then just send the text of your recipe. If you can do the format- ting yourself, then please do! That will save the editor a lot of time, and your recipe will go out sooner. Some hints for how to do it are in a later section of this document. If you don't know about xroff/troff/nroff but you do want to be helpful, then you can help a lot by doing these things: (1) Put your recipe in the standard sequence. (2) Don't put any tab characters (^I) in the file if you can possibly avoid it. They do strange things on typesetters. (3) If you are a troff wizard, please don't use any of that wizardry in these recipes. If you stick to the set of commands used in the Unix manual macros (see man(7)), and the set of commands that are part of the USENET Cookbook package (see following section), then things should work OK. There are plenty of places in troff where you can get away with not using quotes around macro arguments. Please use quotes, even when they are redundant, such as in ``.IG "1" "onion"'' This is because the indexing and cross-referencing programs expect to find the quotes, even though troff can work without them. HOW TO WRITE A RECIPE Please try to put your recipe in the standard sequence. Dif- ferent cookbooks use different standards. This is the sequence that the USENET Cookbook uses. (a) Title and 1-line description. The 1-line descrip- tion will be used to index the recipe, so make it as descriptive as possible. Avoid words like ``delicious'' or ``yummy''. We expect all of these recipes to be delicious. (b) Introductory commentary, explaining (if possible) where you got the recipe from and what you like about it. If you got the recipe from a cookbook, give the title and author of that cookbook. (c) List of ingredients, using ``Tbsp'', ``tsp'', ``cup'', ``oz'', and ``lb'' for English units, or ``ml'', ``dl'', ``l'', ``g'', and ``kg'' for metric units. Stay away from ``pint'', ``quart'', and ``gallon'', because they have different mean- ings in different countries. Do not use 1-letter abbreviations for US measures: don't use "c" for "cup" or "T" for "Tbsp". An ``oz'' is a fluid ounce or an avoirdupois ounce depending on con- text. The ingredients should be listed in the order they will be used. Don't capitalize ingredient names unless they are proper nouns. Avoid terms like ``1 box'' or ``1 can'' or ``1 package'', because packaging conventions vary widely from place to place. If you must say ``1 can of soup'', then at least tell me how big you think a can of soup is. (d) Numbered sequence of recipe steps. Be very careful to mention every ingredient somewhere. The most common mistake made in recipes is to omit one or more ingredients from the procedure steps. (The second-most-common mistake is to leave an ingredient out of the ingredient list). (e) Notes (if any). Comments on how you like to make it, ingredient availability, comments about specific brands, etc. (f) Your ``signature''. This should include your name and net address, the organization that you are a part of, and the name of the city it is in. COPYRIGHT NOTES Tell us where you got the recipe from. It's ok if you cribbed it from a book or magazine or newspaper, but if you copy exactly the words that you found there, there might be a problem with copyright violation. The copyright of a recipe is not on the formula, but on the words. If you have copied the words out of a copyrighted cookbook, then you are infringing its copyright. While the main purpose of the USENET cookbook is to let us all make our own custom cookbooks, we can't ignore the real- ity of the copyright law. Surely you have noticed that every modern book says ``No part of this publication may be repro- duced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, ..., or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher.'' Copyright law is complex, and only a lawyer who specializes in copyright can reliably advise you on whether or not you are violating it, but in general if you rewrite a recipe, in your own words, even if you don't change the formula, then you are not infringing the copyright by submitting that recipe to the network. The copyright is on the words that explain the recipe, and on the title of the recipe, not the formula itself. The USENET Cookbook itself is copyrighted. Every recipe is sent out with a copyright notice, and the macros that print the cookbooks add a copyright notice to the bottom of each page. The purpose of this is to prevent unauthorized commer- cial use of the USENET Cookbook. DO YOUR OWN FORMATTING If you put formatting commands in the recipes that you sub- mit, they will go out more quickly, since the cookbook edi- tor won't have to put them in. The basic principle is to use as few commands as possible, and in general to use only commands that are defined in the manual macros or the recipe macro package. Various process- ing programs search through these files and look for string matches on things like ``.IG'' and ``.RZ''. Print out a few of the recipe source files from /usr/spool/news/mod/recipes, and then use /usr/local/bin/rctypeset or /usr/local/bin/rcnroff to produce formatted versions of them. Have that at hand when you are formatting your recipe. You can test your formatting by using rctypeset or rcnroff on your draft versions before you submit the recipe. A ``skeleton'' recipe follows. .RH is the recipe header com- mand; it must be the first line of each recipe and it must have 4 arguments. ``RECIPE-ID'' is the file name under which the recipe will be stored. Normally the editor chooses the recipe id, but you can put a suggestion there if you like. It must be 14 characters or less, and must not duplicate any previous or pending recipe id. The ``?'' is a ``what kind of recipe'' code from the code table below. .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE RECIPE-ID ? "22 Dec 83" .RZ "RECIPE TITLE IN CAPITALS" "One-line description of it" Introductory comments; use .PP between paragraphs. .IH "4 cups" <- Ingredients Header .IG "1/2 cup" "butter" <- Ingredient (please use quotes) .IG "1" "onion" (medium to large, chopped fine. Don't try to use instant onion in this recipe) .PH <- Procedure header .SK 1 <- Procedure step Boil the water. <- Text for that step .SK 2 <- and so forth. .NX <- Notes header Notes (commentary) goes here; use .PP to separate paragraphs. .WR <- Wrapup Signature information goes here. As a minimum you should list your name, network address, organization (company, university, etc.), and the city you live or work in. Remember that when you post to a moderated newsgroup, the news software usually forgets to include your .signature file, so you should be sure to include it manually. If it manages to get there twice, I will remove the extra copy. You can also use the following -man macros; see man(7) for the complete list. .I "italic words" .B "boldface words" .SM "small words" .PP <- paragraph break .PD <distance> <- paragraph distance .IP "indented paragraph". .RS <- relative start: move things to the right .RE <- relative end: move things left again You can also use these nroff/troff commands: \fI, \fB, \fR, .if, .ds, .br, .nf, .fi, and .ta METRIC OR INTUITIVE MEASUREMENT? Most countries in the world use metric measurements for their recipes. The U.S. defiantly uses a system that they call ``the English system of measurement,'' teaspoons and cups. The English never used that system, thoughxthey used a similar system, with spoons and cups of a different size, and they called it the Imperial system. Every attempt to convert U.S. cooks to the metric system has failed. Most Americans have never even seen a metric recipe, and virtu- ally no American cook owns a kitchen scale or metric measuring spoons. But mod.recipes is international in scope, and we want the recipes to be accessible to everyone. Therefore the recipes that are posted all have a dual measurement system in them, both English and metric. When a cookbook page is printed, a troff/nroff option determines whether or not it will be printed with English units or metric units. The dual-system measurement scheme is accomplished by having both sets of values stored in the body of the recipe, and having the software select one or the other when the recipe is printed. This means that somebody has converted the recipe to both sets of units, and has edited in both sets of measurements. There are four places in a recipe where the system of meas- urement matters: the ingredient list, commentary about ingredients, references to ingredients in the text, and references to temperature in the text. There is a troff/nroff command for each one of those situations. Because mod.recipes originated in the U.S., the U.S. (``English'') measurement system is always given first in all of these commands. Ingredient header. The ``.IH'' command takes two argu- ments. The first is the English-unit specification of how much the recipe produces, and the second (if present) is the metric specification of the same thing. Ingredient list. The ``.IG'' command takes an optional third argument, which is the metric description of the quantity of the ingredient. For counts-3 onions, 2 eggs-the metric description will be the same and you can leave it off. References to ingredients. In the text you might want to say something like ``set aside 1/2 Tbsp of the ginger'' or ``reserve 100 ml of the sauce''. For that purpose there is a macro ``.AB'', that takes two argu- ments and prints one or the other, but never both. References to temperature. The U.S. uses Fahrenheit degrees; nearly everyone else uses Celsius or Cen- tigrade. Troff can print a ``degree'' sign, but nroff cannot. To solve these two problems simultaneously, there is a ``.TE'' macro, for indicating temperature. It takes two numeric arguments, the first a Fahrenheit temperature and the second a Celsius temperature. In case the .AB or .TE expression needs to be the end of a sentence, the macro can take a third argument, which is the punctuation character at the end of the sentence. For exam- ple, you would type Then add butter .AB "1 Tbsp" "30 g" at a time. Lick the spoon to use the last .AB "tablespoon" "few grams" . Here is the example of the previous section, updated to include international multi-unit arguments to all of the macro calls: .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE RECIPE-ID ? "22 Dec 83" .RZ "RECIPE TITLE IN CAPITALS" "One-line description of it" Introductory comments; use .PP between paragraphs. .IH "4 cups" "1 liter" <- Ingredients Header .IG "1/2 cup" "butter" "100 g"<- Ingredient (please use quotes) (or use a mixture of .AB "1/4 cup" "50 g" <- In-text reference to two systems of margarine and .AB "1/4 cup" "50 g" of butter. .IG "1" "onion" <- No need for 2 systems here (medium to large, chopped fine. Don't try to use instant onion in this recipe) .PH <- Procedure header .SK 1 <- Procedure step Preheat the oven to <- Text for that step .TE 350 175 <- Dual-system temperature before soaking the rice. Boil the water. .SK 2 <- and so forth. .NX <- Notes header Notes (commentary) goes here; use .PP to separate paragraphs. .WR <- Wrapup Signature information goes here. As a minimum you should list your name, network address, organization (company, university, etc.), and the city and country you live or work in. CONVERTING RECIPES TO/FROM METRIC Don't try to convert a recipe to metric units unless you have some experience cooking with metric, and don't try to convert a recipe to English units unless you have some experience cooking with them. Submit your recipe in the units that you are comfortable with, and let the mod.recipes editor do the conversion for you. It's not just a simple matter of unit conversion, because most most ingredients are specified by weight in metric recipes and by volume in English recipes. CATEGORY CODES M Main dish SL Salad A Appetizer or snack SP Soup B Bread/pasta D Dessert L Beverage (Liquid) V Vegetable dish C Cookie or cake O Other S Sauce The suffix ``V'' on any category means that it is vegetarian; for example, a vegetarian main dish recipe would be marked ``MV''. SEE ALSO cookbook(1), rn(1) AUTHOR Brian Reid, DEC Western Research Laboratory