Description of FORMAT, a text-processing program

ABSTRACT

FORMAT is a production program which facilitates the editing and printing of “finished” documents directly on the printer of a relatively small (64k) computer system. It features good performance, totally free-form input, very flexible formatting capabilities including up to eight columns per page, automatic capitalization, aids for index construction, and a minimum of nontext items. It is written entirely in FORTRAN IV.

REFERENCES

• 1: BERNS, G. M. FORNIAT. Type III Program Numbers 360D-06.0.003 (for standard System/360) and 360D-06.0.004 (for 360/44), Distrib. by the Program Inform. Dept., IBM Corp., 40 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, New York (Oct. 1968).
• 2: IBM System/360 FORTRAN IV Language. C28-6515, IBM Corp., Program. Syst. Publications, 1271 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 (1966).
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• 5: IBM System/360 Model 44 Programming System: Concepts and Facilities. C28-6810, IBM Corp., Program. Syst. Publications, 1271 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.
• 6: BERNS, G. M. The FORMAT manual. Rep. 320-3510, IBM Washington Sci. Center, Wheaton, MD 20902 (Aug. 1968).
• 7: SEKORA, J . C., AND DEPARTMENT D78 AUTOMATED DOCU- MENTATZON. TEXT90. IBM Corp., Poughkeepsie, New York, NY 12602 (June 1965).
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING

General Terms:
Design, Documentation, Languages, Theory

Keywords:
documentation, formatting, frequency dictionary, indexing, printing, right justification, text editing, text processing, vocabulary