Michigan Terminal System - Manuals - MTS Volume 15: FORMAT and TEXT360

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The MTS Manual is a series of volumes that describe in detail the facilities provided by the Michigan Terminal System. Volume 15 contains the descriptions for the FORMAT and TEXT360 text-processing programs. FORMAT is a text-processing language that takes the text of a document in free format, and reformats it into lines, paragraphs, and pages according to control information supplied with the text. FORMAT numbers pages, generates titles and footers, justifies text (aligns right and left margins), indents sections of text, prints text in multiple columns, etc. An index and table of contents may be generated for the document. TEXT360 is a text-processing system that can expedite the production of publishable documents. The TEXT360 user specifies the desired format by embedding two types of instructions in the text flow: "edit codes," which usually affect the format of a relatively small area of text, and "alter codes," which are more general instructions dealing with format specifications of a larger scope, such as page depth, column width, etc

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