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- Implementation notes. (Or how to make your own national mm)
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- Different commands:
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- COVER [arg]
- MT [arg [addressee]]
- The arg is part of a filename in mm/*.MT or mm/*.cov.
- This file is read when the macro is executed. Therefore it must be
- put before any text output.
- In each file there are definitions of all extra macros needed for the
- cover sheet. MT files is only for compatibility reasons, and has several
- limits due to that it don't know when the cover starts, and cannot
- change sizes. Use COVER for new coversheet macros.
-
- But with MT it is possible to write all of the AT&T covers.
- An example can be found in mm/0.MT.
-
- When writing a new cover using COVER, have in mind that the cover
- should print the page with the COVEND macro. This macro
- should be defined by the new macrofile.
-
- Here is a part of ms.cov:
- > .\"-----------------
- > .de COVEND
- > .sp |4.2c
- > .cov@print-title
- > .cov@print-authors
- > .cov@print-firm
- > .cov@print-abstract
- > .cov@print-date
- This is important, since COVER disables the page header.
- > .pg@enable-top-trap
- Should begin with page one (normally).
- > .bp 1
- And enable the trap at the page footer.
- > .pg@enable-trap
- > ..
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- Variables for covers:
- I = integer
- S = string
- D = diversion
- M = macro
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- Name Type Desc.
- cov*au I The number of authors.
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- cov*title M Title collected with .TL.
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- cov*au!x!y S Author(s) given to .AU
- cov*at!x!y S Author(s) title given to .AT
- x is the author-index [1-cov*au],
- y is the argument-index [1-9].
- Look at the table with indexes.
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- cov*firm I Author(s) firm.
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- cov*abs-arg I Argument to abstract.
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- cov*abs-ind I Indent for abstract.
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- cov*abs-name S The string 'ABSTRACT', changed with .AST
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- cov*abstract M The abstract.
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- cov*new-date S The date (todays date if ND is not used)
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- cov*mt-type S MT type
- cov*mt-addresse S MT addressee
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- Argument-index for cov*au:
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- Index Desc.
- 1 name
- 2 initials
- 3 location
- 4 department
- 5 extension
- 6 room
- 7 arg 7
- 8 arg 8
- 9 arg 9
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- The location is set to the contents of string cov*location-xxxx
- if location is equal to xxxx and cov*location-xxxx is defined
- in the file locale.
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- Argument-index for cov*at:
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- Index Desc.
- 1 title 1
- . .
- . .
- 9 title 9
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