roarbre@idt.unit.no (Roar Brevik) (07/17/90)
1. In the helpfile on "initfiles" (initfls.help) there is a reference to
"listprocs" ('...se help on listprocs for information on how to find
out what
procedures are available.'). The file "listprocs.help" is not present in our
source (patch005) and there is none in help.aliases about it. Where
can I get
info on the procs that are available? (I want to change keybindings
for ez but
have no list of the procedures available in ez. There is help on
"ezprocs" but
this lists only a single procedure [ezapp-set-buffer-checkpoint-latency].)
2. What is the easiest way to cope with *very* large documents using ez?
(eg. The document compiler LaTeX uses "include" and "input".)
Roarghoti+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Adam Stoller) (07/18/90)
1) [...initfiles...listprocs...] Check out help on 'deskey' -- it replaced listprocs a while ago (presumably the initfls.help will be fixed in the next (or next + 1?) patch) 2 [very large documents] Sorry - I can't help with that one - but it might help if you clarified whether you were talking about one very large file (i.e. a 2meg document) or being able to modularize your documents but still be able to get them to print out as one document (i.e. consecutive page numberings, full index, toc, etc.) - Again, I'm not sure what answers there are, but the clearer the question, the better directed the answer can be...... --fish
njw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicholas John Williams) (07/18/90)
> 2 [very large documents]
If Roar meant coping with broken up, modularized documents, then
there was a paper given on this subject at the UKUUG (UK Unix Users
Group) 1989 Winter Technical meeting in Cardiff.
I don't have those proceedings with me at the moment, so I can't
give you any more info, but perhaps someone in the UK or with a copy
would be able to help out...
From what I remember, the speaker and his gang of students had
implemented just such a system as one you want (many modularized files),
which coped with multiple authors and cross referencing and other
goodies. But then, my memory isn't good at the best of times, so I
could be wrong :-)
Nick Williams.
njw@athena.mit.edu,
njw@doc.ic.ac.uk,
njw@cc.ic.ac.uktpn+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Neuendorffer) (07/18/90)
I just added a flag to datacat to provide a facility that I wrote for the Athena folks a while back (datacat is the ATK datastream version of cat). When given the -i flag, datacat will now search through the files it is passed for lines of the form @include(filename) Datacat -i will interpret all of the instances of this and include the named files in its output. The -I flag does the same as the -i flag, except that it will also look for @include lines in the included files themselves. This may be of use to you in composing large documents out of small pieces. If Susan hasn't cut the patch 6 tape yet, I will try and get this change included. Tom N.