asc2frm
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What is asc2frm?
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"asc2frm" is a text formatting package which uses a simple programming
language to define the layout of a document.

Duplicate blanks and duplicate blank lines are ignored. A special command is
used to define an indentation of a section of text.


Features
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o  sections
o  (numbered) titles and subtitles
o  numbered and bullet lists
o  bold, italic, underlined, and reverse text
o  4 foreground and background colours
o  indentations
o  tables

Lists can be nested to a maximum of 1,024 levels. Up to 1,024 sections can be
definded. A table may consist of up to 1,024 columns.


Output formats
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The output files may be in ASCII, ANSI (for printing to PRT: or displaying
with MORE), or AmigaGuide format. By default, an index is created for Amiga-
Guide documents.


Purpose
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"asc2frm" is of use if you want to have the same information in several
document formats.

Any change has only to be made once. After that, you can compile the source
file to any output format you want.

Without "asc2frm", you had to change each file by yourself. Probably, one
would forget to change something in that case, or insert a lot of errors,
etc.

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
[generic]                  272     628  43.3% -lh5- e88c Aug 15  1998 asc2frm.info
[generic]                20767   39072  53.2% -lh5- eba9 Aug 15  1998 asc2frm/asc2frm
[generic]                 3973   11529  34.5% -lh5- 0b15 Aug 15  1998 asc2frm/asc2frm.guide
[generic]                  260     503  51.7% -lh5- f92e Aug 15  1998 asc2frm/asc2frm.guide.info
[generic]                  680    1719  39.6% -lh5- 1a7c Aug 15  1998 asc2frm/Demo
[generic]                   46      60  76.7% -lh5- b3ee Aug 15  1998 asc2frm/make-demo
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total         6 files   25998   53511  48.6%            Aug 18  1998