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From: t68@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Form Doc's
Message-ID: <575@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Date: 5 Dec 89 09:33:51 GMT
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Reply-To: t68@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren)
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Something more about the doc's of FORM.

1:	The manual was written in TeX format because it looks nice
	this way. It uses a customized macro package that was made
	by someone else that makes for a very booklet format when
	printed with two A5 pages on one A4 sheet in landscape
	format. It has some more features that are quite handy.
	The sources of the manual are nearly as long as the dvi
	file and because the future versions of FORM will be
	commercial it is considered bad policy to part with the
	LaTeX file.
2:	It would be quite hard to change the paper size anyway
	because all examples are in verbatim and the size of the
	lines in the verbatim is trimmed to the A5 page size.
	It would look quite ugly with a different paper size.
3:	I am preparing an article with a short description of
	the syntax, some examples etc. for publication. If there
	is a demand for it I can post the LaTeX sources of that
	article. Be warned though that it will be much easier
	to work with the manual. The manual is rather complete,
	and contains a tutorial.

It should be possible to fit 2 A5 pages on one legal size page.

I am sorry that in a posting of yesterday I sounded rather
agitated about the paper size. There was somebody complaining
about paper size and the fact that I didn't use `user(m/f)' and
`he/she' everywhere, making the manual unreadable for everyone.
Considering the amount of work it was to type in nearly 400Kbytes
of text in a language that isn't my native language I think I'll
exclude people that complain like that from the licensing in the
future. 

Jos Vermaseren