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                                      AUTHOR:
                                      -------
                                   John Clement
                                Bonner Nuclear Lab
                                  Rice University
                                     Box 1892
                                 Houston Tx, 77251
                                  (713) 527-4018

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                                     ABSTRACT

                              Bonner Lab Runoff (RNO)

     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 document and help file for this version
     can  also be used for DSR.  The intent of this program is to support com-
     plete scientific word processing to produce publication  quality  output.
     It  has been used to produce thesis, progress reports, and scientific pa-
     pers here at Rice University.  

     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 defin-
     ing escape sequences the user may support different printers in  a  tran-
     sparent  fashion.   In  other  words  the  same  input text will print in
     identical fashion on different printers with different control codes  and
     escape sequences.  

     Table  of  contents,  indexing  and  sub-indexing  are  all supported.  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.  

     All  special  characters  are  redefinable.  The user may define new com-
     mands, and text macros.  By defining commands you can  make  it  resemble
     other  text  formatters,  or  other  versions  of RUNOFF.  You may define
     numeric symbols to facilitate  constructing  lists  of  arbitrary  items.
     These  allow page and section references.  A 2 pass option allows forward
     references to symbols defined later in the text.  

     This  runs  under  VMS-native  mode, RSX, IAS, RT11, TSX, P/OS, and RSTS.
     RNO occupies a minimum of 30 to 37 kbytes depending on the operating sys-
     tem.   Complete  documentation,  help  files, and test files are supplied
     with the program for all operating systems.  

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                                   Distribution

     This  distribution  contains all files necessary for building RNO for any
     supported operating systems.  Nearly All file names are 6  characters  or
     less  to  acommodate all operating systems.  Once you have built the exe-
     cutable image, you can use it to generate documentation  and  help  files
     for  your  operating system.  Several files are included to document this
     version.  

          1.  BUILD.DOC contains instructions for building the program and do-
              cumentation.  

          2.  RNOBUG.DOC lists bugs that have been fixed.  

          3.  CHANGE.DOC lists the latest enhancements.  

          4.  RUNOFF.DOC  is  the  full document for VMS.  This is not distri-
              buted on small (floppy) kits, but  is  included  with  mag  tape
              kits.  

          5.  INTERNALS.DOC is for wizards only.  

          6.  RNO.EXE is the VMS executable image.  All other users must build
              RNO.  

          7.  *.TST are test files for various RNO features.