[sebhc] document format

[Bob And Bettina Groh]

Yep, Peter's little file was for one of the original text editors.  My 
memory is too ancient to identify which one but the commands are pretty 
self explanatory, e.g. two periods starting in left hand column is a 
comment, a period followed by 2 or more characters is a formatting 
command, e.g.
.rm xx is (probably) "set right margin to xx spaces", etc.  Oh, boy, the 
good old days.

Bob Groh
Heathkit Engineer 1977 to 1981
Early Heathkit computer user (had one of the very first H-89's that 
shipped!)


Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

>Hi
> I have a program for the H89 called TEXT that was a
>printer formatter. These look like the same codes it uses
>but it has been a long time since I used it. It may
>not be from any specific word processor. Some people
>actually edited this kind of stuff by hand when creating
>manuals. Also look at the program on the web page called
>PIE. It seems like this had some of these formatting
>function built in.
>Dwight
>
>
>>From: "Peter Shkabara" <peter59 at sbcglobal.net>
>>
>>It has been so long that I am forgetting much of the things that used to be
>>simple. Here is the top part of one of my documents:
>>==========================
>>.. 6MHz instructions
>>.. Standard instruction format for 8.5 by 5.5 booklets
>>.. Uses pica type real size
>>.. by Peter Shkabara 7-10-87
>>.po 2
>>.lm 1
>>.rm 54
>>.mt 5
>>.mb 22
>>.pl 66
>>.cw 10
>>.uj on
>>.hm 2
>>.fm 2
>>==========================
>>Is this part of a WordStar or a WordPerfect file? I am trying to reproduce
>>my instruction booklets in order to post them, but keep running into memory
>>failures - mine, not the computer's ;)
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Peter
>>-----------------------------------------------------------
>>peter59 at sbcglobal.net - http://www.geocities.com/anapro.geo/
>>
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