V10/cmd/movie/stills.def
Definition of Stills Language
USAGE
typical troff preprocessor: converts its input language (bracketed by
.begin stills and .end) into pic, and passes all else through
STATEMENTS (A file and print are mandatory; all else optional.)
# comment -- must be first nonblank character on line
view <name> <optional title, with blanks>
named views appear in order
if no view statements, all views are displayed
if title is enclosed in quotes, leading space is kept
if no title is given on a line, view name is used as a title
print statements (any number of the following forms)
print all Every click
print final End of file
print <clickname> all All clicks of clickname
print <clickname> <int>+ Designated click numbers of clickname
Parameter settings
General form: <attribute> <value>
numeric values may be of form -n, n, +n, or missing (zero default)
all parameters reset to default at every begin statement
Attributes:
Mandatory: file
give file name as <basename>.s
stills develops .s to get .i, if needed
Text sizes: small medium big bigbig
``small -2'' does a .ps -2 for small text
Line widths: solid fat fatfat
``fat +4'' does a .ps +4 for fat lines
Directions: across down
``across 5'' gives 5 time snapshots across the page; views go
top to bottom; across 0 is default
``down'' or ``down 0'' gives as many snapshots as will fit down
an 8-inch page; views go left to right
Frame: frameht framewid margin
height and width in inches, default 1.5
margin is white space around data, default 0.05 = 5%
Optional parts: frames times
values are ``vis'' and ``invis''; default ``vis''
frames surround pictures; times are from print statements
WISH LIST
New Parameter Settings
Spread between frames
Frame control like GRAP ``graph with'', both for layout within
time snapshots and positioning of new snapshot w.r.t. previous