PUBLISHER(1) — USER COMMANDS

NAME

publisher: electronic publishing system for Sun workstations running SunOS 3.2 or greater in the SunView environment.

SYNOPSIS

publisher [-e doc] [-sample] [-copy] [-f] [-h] [-n’type’] [-s] [-t] [-r] [-c ’cmd1; cmd2; ...; cmdn’] [win args] [-u] [-v ’win args’] [doc]

DESCRIPTION

The Publisher is an electronic publishing system developed by ArborText, Inc. The Publisher components include an Edit Window, a Command Subwindow, a Preview Window, a WYSIWYG equation editor, an interactive table editor, and WYSIWYG paint and draw facilities. The Publisher combines the flexibility of TeX with a structured documentation approach to document formatting and management using standard mark-up. Though knowledge of TeX is not required to use or customize The Publisher, TeX input is allowed for those who wish to use it in a document.

OPTIONS

−e doc
starts a new document by copying the named existing document.

−sample
brings up the sample document panel.

−copy
brings up the copy document panel.

−fstarts the formatter right away so the first print or preview request will be faster. Normally, the formatter is started with the first first preview or print request.

−hdisplays a usage message with all options listed.

−nstarts a new document of the specified document type. The types can be initial substrings from the list of document types, but if the name contains blanks, the name must be enclosed in quotes (-n’form letter’). Legal document types distributed with The Publisher are ‘business letter’, ‘personal letter’, ‘memo’, and ‘book’. Any new document types installed by the user are also legal.

−swrites an SGML file to ‘doc/doc.sgml’ within the document directory.

−truns The Publisher in terminal mode. From the publisher> prompt, you can enter commands that are legal in the Command Subwindow, such as format or print. This is useful for running Publisher documents from an ASCII terminal.

−rforces The Publisher to treat a document as read-only.

−cpasses one or more commands to The Publisher.

−uforces The Publisher to treat the file as an untagged ASCII file. SGML codes, if any, will not be interpreted as Publisher tags.

−v ’win args’
passes arguments to the Preview Window. Any valid Preview command line options or Sun window arguments can be passed. See the UNIX manual page for ‘preview’, for a list of preview command line options. See Sun Microsystems manual Windows and Window-Based Tools: Beginners Guide or The Publisher Advanced User Manual for a list of window arguments. Once the windows are positioned the way you want them, you can use toolplaces command to save their position in the .suntools file. If you are using the -c, -s, or -t options, win args cannot be used.

docis the name of a Publisher document.

EXAMPLES

To position the Edit Window at the left of the screen, widen the size of the Preview Window, and position the Preview Window on the right of the screen, type:

publisher -Wp 6 74 -Ws 529 818 -v ‘-Wp 617 74 -Ws 625 818’