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- Subject: Interleaf FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions for comp.text.interleaf
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- Summary: Frequently Asked Questions (and their answers) about the Interleaf
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- *** INTERLEAF FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions for comp.text.interleaf ***
-
- This "FAQ" document is arranged into nine sections:
-
- 0. What's new in the FAQ
- 1. Introduction - General info
- 2. Administration
- 3. Importing/Exporting, 3rd party tools, customizing
- 4. Miscellaneous user questions
- 5. Platform specific questions
- 6. Interleaf6
- 7. Cyberleaf
- 8. Intellecte/BusinessWeb
- Appendix. Other Information: newsletters; ftp, gopher and WWW sites.
-
- and then broken down further, in outline form rather than "FAQ list" form.
- All section and sub-section numbers are in the form "a.b.c.d", and begin
- in column 1 for easy searching in your favorite editor.
-
-
- 0. What's new in the FAQ
-
- 27 February 1998 rev 3.3
- - Updated description of Filtrix
- - Corrected location of leaf2html
- - Minor corrections to list of contributors
-
-
- 3 January 1998. Rev 3.2 Add anti-spam to mail addresses. ram
-
- 22 February 1997 rev 3.1 First release of Pat Berry's major change
- -minor changes in form of revision comments. ram.
-
- 21 February 1997 rev 3.0 (not released)
- - New maintainer (Pat Berry, berrpm@aur.alcatel.com)
- - Deleted lots of out-of date information
- - Updated Interleaf's mailing address
- - Added note on creating Postscript files with IL6 for Win95/NT
- - Added user groups for Sweden and France
- - Added import/export filters for IL6 for Win95/NT
- - Added Intellecte/BusinessWeb section
- - Corrected various WWW and email addresses
- - Corrected Interleaf Inc. phone numbers
- - Deleted information about ICON conference
- - Corrected list of contributors
- - Incorporated numerous sections from the FAQ written by Julie Barker
- in 1994
-
- 14nov95 rev 2.5
- - update some www references
-
- rev 2.4
- -remove reference to leafline bb--no longer in service
-
- rev 2.3
- -added section 7 on Cyberleaf
- -minor spelling errors corrected
-
- 21dec94 rev 2.2
- - add pointers to Julie Barker FAQ list, update archive
- pointers.
-
- 04dec94
-
- - Change revision level to 2.0 to reflect that Interleaf 6 is
- now included (as it was on recent previous revision). No
- substantive changes.
-
- 17nov94
-
- - Section 0 ("What's new")
- - Section 6 ("Interleaf6"),
-
- - Appendix ("Other information") added by ram@cs.umb.edu; minor
- revisions by ram@cs.umb.edu
-
- - Update references to I6 as though it were a future release, which it
- no longer is.
-
-
- 1. Introduction
-
-
- 1.1. What is Interleaf?
-
- Interleaf, Inc. provides software and services to allow organizations
- to build, integrate and manage document systems. Interleaf software
- covers the full range of document processes: accessing information,
- developing text and graphic documents, putting them through their
- review and revision processes, distributing them electronically or on
- paper, and managing the entire process.
-
- "Interleaf 6" is a document authoring and composition package. It
- provides an integrated set of tools for creating compound documents:
- word processing, graphics, data-driven business charts, tables,
- equations, image editing, automated page layout, book building-
- including automatic index and TOC, conditional document assembly. It
- includes several features engineered to support the production of large
- and complex document sets, including: centralized control over parts
- or all of a document (format and/or content), global search and
- replace/change on individual graphics objects regardless of specific
- orientation or position, revision management.
-
- Also available (on some platforms) is the optional Developer's Toolkit
- (DTK) for customizing or extending the capabilities of the above
- authoring tool. Developer's Toolkit is used to write programs in
- Interleaf Lisp. Interleaf Lisp is similar to CommonLISP, but it also
- contains an extensive set of classes, methods, and functions for
- examining and changing almost all Interleaf objects, including
- documents and their contents. DTK includes an editor, debugger,
- compiler, listener, interpreter, and on-line documentation. Lisp code
- developed with DTK, or even written with an ordinary editor, can be
- executed by the stock system, so that customization or the provision of
- special functionality is not limited to installations with DTK. In
- fact, much of the distributed system is written in Lisp.
-
- Another option for Interleaf 6 is "Interleaf 6 <SGML>" which provides
- complete support for creating structured documents in SGML.
-
- Other products available from Interleaf include the following:
-
- "RDM" (Relational Document Manager) organizes, tracks and manages
- documents and data, and automates every stage of the document
- lifecycle.
-
- "Worldview" distributes information from virtually any source in
- document form for online viewing on virtually any computer. It
- combines electronic viewing with hypertext navigation and full-text
- retrieval.
-
- "Intellecte/BusinessWeb" provides a Web browser interface to
- RDM respositories and WorldView collections via HTML- and
- Java-based search engines. Other Intellecte offerings provide a
- number of different solutions; contact your Interleaf representative
- for the latest offerings.
-
-
- 1.2. What platforms does Interleaf run on, and what are the latest versions?
-
- Full details are on Interleaf's Web page http://www.interleaf.com
-
- Interleaf 6:
-
- Interleaf 6.1 has been released on certain Unix platforms with
- the Motif User Interface. The product is available for Sun,
- HP, IBM, and DEC (OSF 1 1.3.x) workstations. Requirements for
- memory range from 16mB to 32mB and disk requirements from 36
- to 68mB, in addition to minimum swap space of from 32-64 mB
- per session, with 64-128mB per host.
-
- Interleaf 6.2 has been released for Windows NT and Win95.
-
-
- Interleaf 5:
-
- Interleaf 5.4 remains available on the following workstation
- platforms: DG Aviion, DEC VAX/VMS, DEC Ultrix, HP 700, HP
- 300/400, HP/Apollo (Domain), IBM RS/6000,
- Motorola Delta 8000, Sun-3, Sun-4, Silicon Graphics Iris.
-
- The "standard" version of Interleaf 5 provides a UI consistent across
- all the platforms it runs on.
-
- DOS: (386/486)
- Interleaf 5.4 for DOS is the current edition.
-
- The 5.4 release includes international
- localizations for French, German and Italian, Full Revision Tracking,
- support for DEC Pathworks, improved/additional video device driver
- support, and better support for running from within a Microsoft Windows
- 3.1 environment (as a DOS application). Since Interleaf has not
- completed work on the remaining localizations for Dutch, Spanish and
- Swedish interfaces, this release is seeing limited distribution in
- North America. The additional languages and other new features will be
- included in the upcoming release, Interleaf 5.4 for DOS. Customers can
- upgrade from Interleaf IBM Publisher 3.x. (aka version 1.x) to version
- 5.2.02 or wait for version 5.4. Interleaf 5 for DOS is interoperable
- with the Unix and VMS based versions. It includes all the
- functionality of the workstation-based product (tables, equations,
- charting, graphics, etc.) plus some additional features that allow the
- user to run in Microsoft Windows 3.1 environments without extra memory
- managers or special set-ups. Features planned for v5.4 include a new
- simplified GUI install, 32-bit color image support and a new font
- hierarchy to greatly reduce disk footprint.
-
- MAC:
- The current version is Interleaf Publisher for the Mac, version 3.6.
- This product does not conform to the Mac UI, and is no longer available
- from Interleaf.
-
- Interleaf has announced that no further Macintosh releases are
- planned, though using a Macintosh as an X-server, with the
- software running on a remote Unix system, is perfectly feasible.
-
-
- 1.3. How much does Interleaf cost?
-
- Interleaf pricing depends on the exact configuration purchased
- and option packaging varies from country to country. There are
- several different "options" for Interleaf 5 and 6,
- including DTK, Revision Tracking, and Book Catalogs. The
- "base model" Interleaf license is *very* competitive with
- FrameMaker, or other similar systems. Adding
- the above options can be quite expensive. Many sites use a network
- pool of many inexpensive "basic" licenses plus a few expensive "full
- blown" licenses.
-
- It has been noted that universities receive a tremendous educational
- discount, and that commerical and educational license costs for
- Interleaf and its competitors differ greatly depending on which country
- you live in and which platform you are buying. In the US, full-blown
- Interleaf 6 is available to accredited colleges and universities for
- about $200 per site, plus handling. See the web page at
- http://www.cs.umb.edu/~serl for a pointer to details. That
- page describes a program which applies only to North American
- universities.Terms for institutions of higher education in
- other countries (and for businesses and individuals as well)
- vary by country.
-
-
- 1.4 How does Interleaf compare to {FrameMaker,IslandWrite,WordPerfect,etc.}?
-
- This is a religious and/or political issue for many, and it is very
- hard to provide an objective answer. The following summarizes a few
- majority opinions from the frequent discussions in the newsgroup.
-
- Frame is generally considered to be a "mid-range" application; it is
- easy to learn, but experienced users find complex tasks difficult or
- impossible. Many I5 users hate the "toolbox", "Mac/PC-like"
- interface.
-
- Interleaf is thought of as a "high-end" system; it is difficult to get
- started, but expandable and powerful when advanced tasks must be done.
- While many new users abhor the I5 UI, a seemingly equal number
- of experts praise it. I6 for unix has a traditional Motif
- interface whose graphics editory is largely toolbox based. 6.1
- offers a combination of traditional Motif/MSWindows style
- interface with optional "power user" UI features.
-
- Interleaf's document creation metaphor is object-oriented and
- structured in approach, in contrast to the page-layout orientation of
- many "Desktop Publishing" products like Frame, Quark, PageMaker, etc.
- This is often a widely misunderstood difference when comparing
- Interleaf to other "similar" products.
-
- IslandWrite, WordPerfect, MS-Word, et al. have been considered
- low end applications, but as they improve on their
- capabilities, Interleaf distinguishes itself from them in the
- complexity and size of documents it can deal with, in its
- level of integration of text and graphics, and in its open
- architecture for third party extensibility.
-
-
- 1.5 How can I find out more information about Interleaf?
-
- Interleaf, Inc.
- 62 Fourth Avenue
- Waltham, MA 02154-9524
- USA
- (617) 290-0710
-
- US and Canada toll-free service numbers:
- Customer Support Center (800) 688-5151
- Training Registration (800) 955-5323, press 3
- Interleaf Direct (product orders, (800) 955-LEAF
- identify nearest office)
- User Groups, product literature (800) 756-5323
-
- http://www.interleaf.com/
-
- Email:
- Customer Support Center support@interleaf.com
- Passwords password@interleaf.com
- Training Registration enroll@interleaf.com
-
- There are over 50 Interleaf USER GROUPS worldwide. For information on
- the nearest one, or for assistance on starting one, contact Interleaf
- at 1-800-456-5323 (outside North America, call (800) 955-5323 and
- press 5 for marketing information, as described below).
-
- To receive Interleaf's quarterly newsletter and product announcements,
- just send a request to "add me to your mailing list" to the home office
- in your country. Include your name, title, company, mailing address
- and telephone number. Also let them know which Interleaf products
- you're using, and on which computer platforms. Send it to the
- attention of "Marketing."
-
- Bundled with service contracts in North America is 24-hour dial-in
- access to Customer Support's comprehensive "Releaf24" knowledgebase.
- Contract customers can request "Releaf24 Registration Guidelines" by
- calling 1-800-688-5151 or by sending email to support@ileaf.com. Some
- subsidiaries outside the US plan to offer this soon.
-
- Occasionally, patch tapes are available to fix bugs or add
- functionality between major releases. Contact your local sales
- representative for this information.
-
- Customer Services. The toll-free (US and Canada only) customer
- contract line give you one-stop convenience for all your sales needs.
- Call (800) 955-5325. Press 1 for Software Sales (place an order,
- request a catalog, check pricing and order status); press 2 for Support
- Contract Sales (order upgrades, purchase a new support contract, renew
- an existing support contract); press 3 for Training Registration
- (register for a course, request a current training catalog); press 4
- for Reseller Information (find out about VARs in your area); press 5
- for Marketing Information (get news for trade shows, user groups, and
- events in your area, learn about new programs and promotions).
-
-
- 1.6 What does FAQ mean?
-
- If you don't know what a FAQ is, you need to learn more about Usenet.
- Read the introductory postings in news.announce.newusers.
-
-
- 1.7 Why doesn't this FAQ contain info on <your-topic-here>?
-
- This FAQ is biased toward the Unix Workstation platforms, but that is
- probably a function of the popularity of Interleaf on various
- platforms, the popularity of competing products, and the areas of
- expertise of the FAQ contributors. If you have valuable information
- that we missed, or if our assumptions that you are running Unix
- confuse things, we welcome your suggestions on how to improve this
- document.
-
- If something in the FAQ doesn't work for you, it may be due to the
- version of the software you're running, or the platform you're
- running it on. Most of the active newsgroup posters and FAQ
- contributors seem to be running very recent versions of Interleaf
- (5.4, 6.0 or later) and have Unix workstation platforms,
- usually including SunOS.
-
- This FAQ is *NOT* intended to be a substitute for the standard
- Interleaf documentation. Hopefully it will contain the most frequently
- occurring issues that are hard-to-find or absent from the
- documentation.
-
-
- 1.8 Should I post my question to comp.text.interleaf?
-
- - Understand the introductory information in the news.announce.newusers
- newsgroup. Be sure to read the "Rules for posting to Usenet"
- posting.
-
- - Read this FAQ.
-
- - Post to local.test or misc.test if you've never posted before.
-
- If your question is still unanswered, post it. Be sure to include all
- the necessary information as appropriate such as:
-
- The version of Interleaf you are running (including patches)
- The hardware platform you are on
- The version of your Operating System and windowing system
- How much memory and swap space you have
- What type of printer it won't print on
- etc.
-
- This information is also important when you are asking your question
- via email to someone.
-
-
- 1.9 My site does not get netnews. Is there a ListServ or other
- mail gateway for comp.text.interleaf?
-
- -No.
-
- 1.10 Who wrote this FAQ?
-
- Thanks to the following FAQ contributors:
- _____name_____ _____email_____ ____claim-to-fame_______
- Heidi Daitch heidi@interleaf.com Interleaf
- Brian Diehm briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM newsgroup contributor
- Ted Fabian tpf4434@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov Interleaf admin
- Amy Farrell Amy.K.Farrell@tek.com Interleaf admin/user
- expert
- Deborah Graham djg@interleaf.com Interleaf Doc Supervisor
- Adam Harrison eros@cs.pdx.edu FTP site maintainer
- Daniel Haug haug@austin.lockheed.com newsgroup contributor
- Tom Jones tjones@access.digex.net FAQ editor
- Stephen Keller stephenk@zeugma.lmc.com newsgroup contributor
- Christine King bcking@interleaf.com Interleaf lead VMS
- engineer
- Alek Komarnitsky alek@spatial.com newsgroup contributor
- David Lightman dalight@afterlife.ncsc.mil newsgroup contributor
- Hal Miller hmiller@tasc.com newsgroup contributor
- Jon Monssarat jgm@cs.brown.edu general netnews wizard
- Robert Morris ram@cs.umb.edu LISP guru, FAQ editor
- Nils-Peter Nelson npn@cbnewsl.cb.att.com newsgroup contributor
- Bret Pettichord former interleafer
- Randyl Plampin cplampin@ix.netcom.com FAQ editor
- Bill Rea billr@ims.com FAQ editor
- Danny Schales dan@engr.latech.edu newsgroup contributor
- Randy Smith smithrh@cig.mot.com Interleaf admin, ng
- contributor
- George Snyder gjs@inmet.com newsgroup contributor
- Eric Sosman eric@interleaf.com Interleaf VMS engineer
- Anne Tice tice@dg-rtp.dg.com newsgroup contributor
- Todd Williams todd@macsch.com Unix sysadmin, FAQ editor
- Brian Wong blw@majipoor.corp.sun.com newsgroup contributor
- Dorene Woodrow former Interleafer
-
- You can send mail to the Interleaf FAQ Editors at
- leaf-faq-editors@cs.umb.SPAM-NOT.edu.
-
-
-
- 2. ADMINISTRATION
-
-
- 2.1 Interleaf administration vs. Unix administration of Interleaf
-
- The Interleaf System Administration manual provides procedures that
- require the administrator to be running Interleaf, manipulating icons,
- etc., and running Interleaf programs like printer_install and
- prhost_install -- is this really necessary?
-
- No. But Interleaf has mixed feelings about providing "Interleaf
- procedures" and "Unix procedures" for the same tasks. Most of the
- Interleaf procedures have easy Unix shortcuts, but use them at your
- own risk. The Interleaf equivalent of "ln -s" takes several mouse/
- menu operations. Some administrators edit their printers.lsp file
- directly (or have their custom shell script do it), never running
- the printer_install or prhost_install programs.
-
- In the DOS version of Interleaf 5, many of these tasks have been
- simplified and moved into the hands of the end users. For example,
- prhost_install and printer_install have been merged into one program
- which is run by the user from within Interleaf 5 itself.
-
-
- 2.2 Printing
-
-
- 2.2.1 Can I create PostScript files on the desktop in Interleaf?
-
- Yes. The administrator runs printer_install and creates a new
- "printer" named "PostScript" (or whatever). Choose filtering on the
- desktop, the "Other PostScript printer" model, use the NULL.PPD file,
- face down output, and choose *not* to spool to the printer. Whatever
- menu name you chose (I suggest "<PostScript File>") will now appear in
- the printer menu. When selected, it will output to a PostScript file
- in the current directory. The filename will have a suffix of "_ps"
- (no, Interleaf hasn't learned the ".ps" Unix convention).
- [the previous paragraph works fine on the 5.3 Sun version of Interleaf;
- for other platforms, your mileage may vary]
-
- Adventuresome hackers can simply insert the following into their
- /interleaf/ileaf5/data/printers.lsp file (on Unix hosts):
- (
- :netname "PostScript"
- :menuname "<PostScript>"
- :filt-args ("-ppd" "NULL.PPD" "-ft" "3")
- :pdltag "ps"
- :filter "pl2ps"
- :install "ps_install"
- :ps-type1 ("-ft" "3")
- :ppdfile "NULL.PPD"
- :rvopt " "
- :european " "
- :physical-printer "PostScript"
- :spool "n"
- :filter-loc "desktop"
- :type "ps"
- :model "Other PostScript printer"
- :id :bsd-other-ps
- )
-
- On Interleaf 5 for DOS, this comes as a default setup.
-
- On Interleaf 6 for Win95/NT, you can create Postscript files with the
- "Print to file . . ." system printer option.
-
-
- 2.2.2 Can Interleaf 5 create Encapsulated PostScript files (EPS files)?
-
- Yes. Beginning with Interleaf 5.3, you have the ability to create EPS
- 3.0 files as an option under the printer pulldown menu. To add this
- functionality simply add another printer using printer_install. Select
- "EPS File" as the printer type. This will add EPS to your PRINT menu.
- When printing to EPS, the EPS file will contain one entire page
- (including page #, etc.).
-
- In Interleaf 5 for DOS, add the "-EPS" option to the switch settings
- for creating PS files in the Printer Setup Tool, and save this as a
- new menu entry ("Create EPS File").
-
- If you want to filter an object that will be placed on a page in some
- other program, you'll need to set the document size appropriately.
- (Unless there is some other way to let Interleaf know where the
- boundaries of the object are.) Since a typical EPS file is one graphic
- object, you can set the frame size to "Contents," then back to "Fixed"
- to see the actual size of the graphic. Then, open the Page property
- sheet and enter the frame height and width values as the page size.
- (If someone knows a better way, we'd like to hear about it.)
-
- There are some subtle differences between PostScript files and EPS
- files. Each format has its appropriate uses, so both are discussed
- here. See the comp.lang.postscript FAQ for the gory details.
-
- One idiosyncrasy of Interleaf-generated EPS files is the line
- %%BoundingBox: (atend)
- Some programs insist on having the BoundingBox at the beginning of
- the document, so if you have an application which chokes on Interleaf
- EPS, move this line to the initial comments section.
-
-
- 2.2.3 Are there special problems with SPARCprinters using NeWSprint?
-
- Maybe. Some users have noted problems with SPARCprinters, and other
- note problems with certain fonts or frames or bullets looking "dirty".
- Make sure you have the right PPD file.
- [This section is still under construction. If you have info to add,
- please send a summary to the editors]
-
-
- 2.2.4 Printerleaf-to-PostScript
-
- The pl2ps command can be very useful in debugging printing problems.
- Create a printerleaf (*.pl) output file by selecting "Printerleaf" in
- the Printers menu. Now you can convert this to a PostScript file by
- running pl2ps. Execute "pl2ps -usage" for a summary of options. A
- typical invocation would be:
- % pl2ps -v -ppd NULL.PPD -i docname.pl -o docname.ps
- The -v (verbose) flag is useful for debugging. You must always specify
- a PPD file -- this is a good way to test PPD files.
-
-
- 2.2.5 PPD (PostScript Printer Definition) Files
-
- Adobe PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files describe how to use
- the standard and special features (hardware and software) on a
- specific PostScript printer. This would include things such as which
- fonts are resident, if duplexing is supported, how many trays exist
- and which paper sizes are available. PPD files are created by the
- printer manufacturer, not Interleaf. Interleaf only includes a few of
- the most popular ones on its distribution tape.
-
- Interleaf PPD files are located in the /interleaf/ileaf5/data/ps
- directory. These files are usually named with the printer's
- designation and the version of PostScript being used (e.g.,
- LWNTX470.PPD means Apple LaserWriter NTX with PostScript version 4.70).
-
- Since the Apple LaserWriter is the simple, standard least-common-
- denominator of printers, you can probably get by using the default
- APPLE422.PPD file if you are running Interleaf 5.0 through 5.3.0.
- If you are using version 5.3.1 of Interleaf, you can probably get
- by using the NULL.PPD file. If these files don't work (i.e., you
- still can't print), or if you want to use advanced capabilites
- your printer may have, you need to get the correct PPD file for your
- printer.
-
- How to get PPD files. If you have a printer that isn't on the
- Interleaf tape, you can obtain PPD files directly from Adobe.
- Adobe has an automated mail server that can e-mail PPD files
- (and a bunch of other stuff) directly to you over the
- Internet. To find out what PPD files are available send mail
- to: ps-file-server@adobe.com. In the body of the message, on
- the first line, type: "index PPDFiles". The server will send
- you a list of the PPD files it has available. For information
- on how to use the server, send another e-mail message to
- ps-file-server@adobe.com. In the body of the message, on the
- first line, include one word: "help". The server will send
- you a message describing how to access information.
-
- All the PPD files on the Adobe server follow the version 4 PPD
- specification. This means that you must upgrade to version 5.3.1 or
- higher of Interleaf to use type-4 PPD files. Contact the printer
- manufacturer if you need an older type-3 PPD file.
-
-
- 2.2.6 How do I suppress the Interleaf header page by default?
-
- The administrator should change the Print->Properties in the original
- document, which lives in the SYSTEM CREATE cabinet; then any new
- documents created will inherit those values. This change is probably
- effected most easily when the administrator has created a MASTER
- SYSTEM5 CABINET icon on his desktop -- see the administration manual
- for details.
-
-
- 2.2.7 Where can I get more specific information about my Brand XYZ printer?
-
- See the comp.periphs.printers and comp.lang.postscript newsgroups.
-
-
- 2.2.8 My output seemed to go to the printer, but nothing printed!
-
- One good way to debug PostScript printing problems is to download a
- PostScript error handler program. This is a simple PostScript program
- that you "print" to your printer (but no output is generated). You
- now have an error-handler "loop" running until printer power is cycled.
- If your Interleaf output generates improper PostScript code, instead of
- silently exiting, you will get an error message printed on a page of
- output, which may be of use to a PostScript guru, your printer vendor,
- etc. You can get an error handler from the Adobe mailserver (see
- "PPD files", above).
-
- 2.2.9 Can I print an Interleaf doc without actually running Interleaf?
-
- Use the -print startup option when you enter the Interleaf 5
- startup command. This prints a document without opening a
- desktop. You supply the name(s) of the document as an
- argument.
-
- You can specify a printer other than the nearest printer, print
- multiple copies/uncollated copies, print odd or even numbered
- pages, and print a range of pages.
-
- To specify a printer other than the nearest printer established
- for the workstation, add :printer NAME as an argument to the
- command line option. The default is the nearest printer, which
- may not be the one you want.
-
- Example: To print 5 copies of pages 2 through 15 of the
- document plan.doc on the printer ely, use the following command:
-
- ileaf -print :copies 5 :first 2 :last 15 :printer ely plan.doc
-
- Syntax: Here's the syntax:
-
- -print {:KEY VALUE}* DOCUMENT*
- Print specified files in batch mode. Optional KEY VALUEs are
- :printer NAME, :copies NUM, :collated T|NIL, :parity
- :even|:odd, :first NUM, :last NUM.
-
- (To get info on all of the available startup options, type
- ileaf -usage.)
-
- 2.3 File management
-
- 2.3.1 What are all these ,8 and ,9 files on my desktop?
-
- For every Interleaf document file.doc, you get a set of additional
- files with assorted filename extensions. At Interleaf 5, the
- filename extensions are as follows:
-
- filename.doc the document
- filename.doc,1 the backup version of the document
- filename.doc#1 a copy of the document
- filename.doc#1,1 the backup version of the copy
- filename.doc,2 the checkpoint version of the document
- filename.doc,3 the crash version of the document
- filename.doc,4 the work-in-progress version of the document
- filename.doc,5 Lisp methods associated with the document
- filename.doc,6 Lisp data associated with the document,
- most often Hyperleaf Toolkit data (see 2.18)
- filename.doc,8 an autonumbering and autoreferencing summary file
- for this document
- filename.doc,9 an indexing summary file for this document
- .@filename.doc an attribute file with information on document
- attributes and icon position
-
- When you copy normal documents (without Hyperleaf TK data -
- locators or hypertext links), move them, send them through email,
- etc, the only version you need is the plain .doc version.
-
- backup version (filename.doc,1)
- The backup version is made by Interleaf automatically
- (based on the number of keystrokes you make or mouse
- movements in a graphics frame). You can use this
- file to recover lost changes if something disastrous
- happens when you are working on a doc and you don't
- have a chance to save a crash file, eg a power cut.
-
- In such a case, list the files to see if the .1 version
- has a later time stamp than the .doc version. If it has,
- rename the ,1 version (eg backup.doc) and open that - this
- should recover some if not all of your changes.
-
- For example:
-
- % ls -l body*
- -rw-r--r-- 1 julie 16382 Jan 27 18:15 body.doc
- -rw-r--r-- 1 julie 18052 Jan 27 18:27 body.doc,1
- -rw-r--r-- 1 julie 532 Jan 27 16:42 body.doc,8
- % mv body.doc,1 body-backup.doc
-
- crash version (filename.doc,3)
- If you get an Interrupt stickup (eg SIGSEGV signal) in the
- middle of editing a document, you can save your document
- in a crash file (the File option). Select the File option
- for as many open documents as you are working on and then
- exit. When you next try to open your original document you
- will get a popup telling you that a crash file exists and
- offering you the choice which version of the doc you want
- to open. If it no good, you can always revert to another
- version (backup, saved).
-
- work-in-progress (filename.doc,4)
- This is created when you execute Close in a document
- you have modified and choose Hold on the stickup. It is
- also created if have more than 4 docs open at once in a
- book. You can change this limit in the user profile.
- With 4 edited and unsaved docs open, when you open a
- 5th document, Interleaf will close one of the first 4,
- keeping all changes you have made in a work-in-progess
- file. Next time you open a doc with a work-in-progress
- file, Ileaf automatically opens that version.
-
- **NOTE: See also Bugs & Workarounds section**
-
- attribute file (.@filename.doc)
- This is the file that controls where the icon appears
- on the screen. When you copy a file to your desktop
- using the OS and it doesn't appear on the desktop, it's
- because the file has no associated .@ file. When you do
- a rescan, a .@ file is created. When you delete a file
- from an Interleaf directory using the OS and you don't
- delete the associated .@ file, the icon will remain
- visible in Interleaf. If you select the icon and look
- at its Property sheet, you will see that it is an
- incomplete file. You need to delete the associated .@
- file when you delete a document (folder/cabinet/file)
- using the OS (or you can simply cut the icon in Interleaf).
-
-
-
- 3. IMPORT-EXPORT, 3rd party tools, customizing
-
-
- 3.1 Importing information into Interleaf
-
-
- 3.1.1 Importing files
-
-
- 3.1.2 How do I get the name of the document into my file?
-
- To put the document name into a frame--typically a header or footer
- frame--type Escape-@ into a text string. Some distributions may use
- the key binding Escape-n. This won't work in microdocuments. This is
- parallel to putting in page numbers with Escape-#, or the date with
- Ctrl-X d.
-
- The LISP command "(tell *document* mid:get-name)" will return a string
- with the document name. I suppose one could automate the insertion of
- this string in much the same way as the autodate2 program (q.v.),
- though I'd be interested to see something simpler. This is such a
- useful capability that I hope someone posts a nice solution.
-
-
- 3.1.3 How do I get the date into my file?
-
- If working in a book with a catalog, you can place the date in a shared
- component or shared-content frame within the catalog. Turn frame
- and/or component exports on. Then you only need to update the catalog
- when the date changes.
-
- If not working in a book, you can tag the document with an attribute
- for "date" and use Effectivity Control to control what date appears in
- the document.
-
- In Interleaf 5, you can use the Ctrl-x d command in a component or
- microdocument to insert the current system date, although it will not
- update automatically each time the document is accessed.
-
- Lisp scripts can be written to insert a date that will change
- dynamically, or to change the format of the date.
-
- Bob Morris has written some active document LISP code will make the
- current date appear in an I5 document automatically when you
- open it. It will also give you the option of freezing the
- date upon closing the document, i.e. "deactivating" the
- document at close time. The latest version of this LISP file
- is named "autodate2", and is available via anonymous ftp ftom
- ftp.cs.umb.edu in the /pub/interleaf/lisp/ directory, and by
- gopher or the World Wide Web as described in Section 6.
-
- In Interleaf6, a similar facility is provided with the software.
-
-
- 3.1.4 How can I make "form letters" where name/addresses are pulled in from
- external sources?
-
- The January 1992 issue of "Foliage", the (now defunct) newsletter of
- the Northeast Interleaf User's Group, had an article on how to do this
- with ASCII markup.
-
- The general idea (modified somewhat from the article) is
- to define components such as <address>, <salutation>, <letter1>, and so
- on in an Interleaf document. Use "Global apply" or "Unify all" to make
- sure the component masters match what you see on screen. Save
- <letter1> with contents, and turn on its "Shared contents" property.
- Turn on the "Start new page = yes" property of The first component in
- the letter, e.g. <date>. Save the document as ASCII, with a name such
- as letter_master.doc.
-
- Have your database write out a file such as:
- <!class defaults, fill = blank>
- <!Include definitions /home/my/desktop/letter_master.doc>
-
- <date>December 2, 1992
- <address>John Smith
- <address>1111 Home Street
- <address>Anytown, USA 02000
- <salutation>Dear Mr. Smith:
- <letter1>
-
- <date>December 2, 1992
- <address>John Q. Public
- <address>222 Any Place
- ...
-
- The <!class ...> is needed only if your external data contains multiple
- lines of text within a component.
-
- Since line breaks are not significant, and a blank line repeats the
- preceding component, the following is equivalent:
- <!class defaults, fill = blank>
- <!Include definitions /home/my/desktop/letter_master.doc>
-
- <date>
- December 2, 1992
-
- <address>
- John Smith
-
- 1111 Home Street
-
- Anytown, USA 02000
-
- <salutation>
- Dear Mr. Smith:
-
- <letter1>
- ...
-
- If you load this file into Interleaf, or print it using Interleaf
- command line parameters, Interleaf will expand the shared <letter1>
- content in each instance.
-
- Substituting external data into the text of the letter is much harder.
- It requires tricks with inline components, which are extremely ugly in
- ASCII markup. See the Interleaf File Formats manual for more details.
-
-
- 3.1.5 Importing Graphics
- -PostScript
- The psfilt program is used to import PostScript into an
- Interleaf document. As of ileaf5.3, it is bundled with
- Interleaf free of charge.
- -other Interleaf 5.3 filters will import CGM and TIFF files
-
- Interleaf 6 for Win95/NT includes what appears to be fairly good OLE
- support -- with the Paste Special command, you can paste document
- elements from other OLE-compliant applications directly into an
- Interleaf document. (For instance, you can paste a Visio flowchart
- directly into an Interleaf document.) when you double-click on those
- elements, you get a small window into the other application, which
- allows you to edit the element in its interface. You can give the
- resulting Interleaf document to other people to edit, as long as they
- also have the other applications.
-
- Interleaf 6 also ships with a vastly expanded import/export filter
- library; filters included (at least in the Windows version) are:
-
- Graphics (B&W and color):
- Adobe Illustrator
- AutoCAD (import only)
- Windows BMP (import only)
- CGM
- GIF (import only)
- GSA Navy DIF
- DrawPerfect
- HPGL (Hewlett-Packard's plotter language, import only)
- IGES (import only, converts 3D to 2D)
- Pc Paintbrush PCX (import only)
- PICT
- TIFF
- Windows Metafile (WMF)
-
- Note: Tom Jones reports that Interleaf's import filter crashed
- repeatedly when he tried to import a WMF file created by Interleaf's
- output filter.
-
- Text:
- AmiPro
- DCA
- DEC DX
- EBCDIC
- Excel XLS spreadsheets (which convert to tables)
- GlobalView
- IBM DisplayWrite
- Lotus WK3 spreadsheets (which convert to tables)
- Mass-11
- MultiMate
- Plain ASCII text
- Microsoft Word RTF (see note below)
- Wang PC
- WordStar
- XyWrite
-
- Note: RTF is a text-only format. To convert Microsoft Word documents
- containing graphics to Interleaf, save them in WordPerfect format and
- import that file.
-
- Mixed graphics and text:
- FrameMaker (import only)
- WordPerfect
-
- 3.1.6 FrameMaker to Interleaf
-
- Interleaf has a Frame to Interleaf filter called "miffilt" that is
- available for SunSPARC, HP, IBM RS-6000, Ultrix, DOS, and Windows
- 95/NT. It works with Interleaf 5.3 and is included in the Interleaf
- Motif release.
-
- See also the "Interleaf-to-Framemaker" section below about Filtrix
- by Blueberry Software.
-
-
- 3.2 Exporting information from Interleaf
-
-
- 3.2.1 Exporting Interleaf documents to PostScript format
-
- You can create PostScript or, beginning with v5.3, Encapsulated
- PostScript (EPS 3.0) documents as long as your administrator has
- installed the printers appropriately. See the administration section
- for information on this, plus other filtering caveats.
-
-
- 3.2.2 Exporting Interleaf PostScript into troff
-
- Interleaf, like many other proprietary packages, assumes that its
- PostScript output is part of a larger (Interleaf- generated) PostScript
- file. Each fragment makes assumptions about the environment, e.g.,
- counting on certain macros or variables to be defined, perhaps through
- a prologue. The troff PostScript postprocessor would have to know
- about every such environment for every proprietary package a priori,
- and put it in the prologue for you. Every now and then something
- works, often enough to lead you to believe it will always work. If
- you're a programmer, it's a bit like taking a C function that requires
- global variables and never initializing them. PostScript is, indeed, a
- programming language, not just a printer format.
-
-
- 3.2.3 Exporting Graphics
-
- Many users are confused on how to export graphics. Some users report
- success when saving the Interleaf document as a PostScript file, then
- using other packages to convert the PostScript to whatever format is
- desired.
-
- Once you've got PostScript, use the GNU package GhostScript to convert
- it to PBM (Portable Bit Map), GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), or PCX
- (PC Paintbrush). GhostScript is available at all the popular GNU ftp
- sites. These file formats are all compile-time options, so if you've
- already got GhostScript at your site make sure it has the right formats
- compiled in.
-
- If you need a format other than one listed above, convert to PBM first
- then use the PBMPLUS suite of conversion filters to convert PBM to
- whatever you need. PBMPLUS handles a ton of file formats, and is
- available at many popular ftp sites.
-
- If you're not on a Unix system, GhostScript is available for MS-DOS and
- VMS, and PBMPLUS is available on the Amiga (and possibly other
- platforms). You can also find other graphics conversion programs for
- most platforms. PBM and GIF formats in particular are rather common,
- so if you can convert to one of those it's likely you can find
- something to convert to the format you really want.
-
- Beware of converting multiple page documents to a graphics format.
- Most graphics formats don't really have the concept of "page".
- GhostScript will still do the conversion, but will convert each page as
- a separate image. That's good. Unfortunately, it puts all those
- images in the same file. That's bad. It's pretty easy to write a sed,
- awk, or perl script to split multiple PBM images out of a single file;
- I've never really tried it for the other graphics formats.
-
- You can go through these steps to produce an image file suitable
- for faxing via faxmodem! Tell GhostScript to use a resolution of
- 210x98 dpi; this is the resolution of a fax machine. (Use 210x196
- dpi for "fine" mode.) PBMPLUS includes a filter for PBM to Group 3
- FAX.
-
-
- 3.2.4 Interleaf to FrameMaker
-
- Blueberry Software sells Filtrix, which converts to and from Interleaf
- IAF versions 4, 5, and 6. Filtrix converts text and graphics between
- Interleaf and a wide variety of other formats, including FrameMaker,
- Applixware, Word, and WordPerfect. The conversions are very full-
- featured, and the product runs on Windows, Sun, HP, and DEC Alpha.
- Special builds are available for developers and OEMs. A free demo is
- available at www.blueberry.com.
-
- The latest version of Filtrix supports Interleaf 24-bit rasters. An
- import and export of HTML has been added, as well as import of Word 97
- text, tables, and graphics to all versions of Interleaf.
-
- Frame Technology Corp. now has an Interleaf to FrameMaker filter,
- called "ileaf2mif". For a while, Frame was offering it free to new
- with new purchases, and advertising it as "the Ultimate Interleaf
- Upgrade". Some users report reasonable operation, but others note
- that it will not handle equations, etc. It only handles the TPS4.0
- version of Interleaf. Users report:
-
- "I've used the Interleaf->Frame filter ileaf2mif on Suns to translate
- Interleaf files to MIF for end use on PC. The filter does a
- reasonable job of handling Interleaf 4.X ASCII format files, but fails
- on Interleaf 5.3 ASCII format files. You can convert within 5.3 to a
- 4.X format ASCII, but there are still things in the resultant file the
- Frame filter doesn't like. The only way I could make this transfer
- work was convert our 5.3 files to 4.X; invoke Interleaf 4 and save the
- converted files once again from Interleaf 4; then run the filter on
- the 4.X files. This worked fine. The large caveat here is that
- Interleaf 5.3 supports many features not available in 4.X. If you
- depend on any of these new features, you might be out of luck. We
- have only a few documents in this unfortunate situation; they will
- continue on as Interleaf docs for the time being. Another potential
- problem is you must have Interleaf 4. I never did isolate what the
- differences were between 4.X ASCII and 5.3-converted-to-4.X ASCII. It
- might be possible to hand edit (or sed edit) the files."
-
- "The final hurdle in filtering is that Interleaf and Framemaker
- philosophies for handling shared content, graphics objects, page
- layouts, you name it, differ enough that the MIF files produced by
- Frame's ileaf2mif filter are at best poorly structured Frame files.
- To be fair, they do make reasonable compromises and the job of
- improving translated files is far easier than the job of hand
- translating Interleaf documents to Framemaker."
-
- "[Frame's Interleaf-to-Frame filter] is OK, but no raves. It ...can't
- handle all the autoreferencing since the two codes use such different
- models. I converted a 900 page manual with lots of references and
- figures. It took me about a month to get things back to an
- auto-updating state in Framemaker. Oh well, at least it beats
- retyping."
-
- 3.2.5 Interleaf to HTML
-
- Interleaf's Cyberleaf program is a commercial program which
- converts from many sources, including Interleaf binary or
- ASCII. See Section 7.0 for more details.
-
- There is at least one free tool: leaf2html, available at
- http://www.wpi.edu/ftp/contrib/leaf2html.tar.gz. This program does not
- handle hyperleaf links or provide a facility for adding user-provided
- links. It chunks large documents into small html files and
- automatically links them.
-
-
-
- 3.3 Third Party Tools
-
- Contact Interleaf at (800) 955-5323 (press 1 for Sales Support) for a
- list of current Interleaf business partners, and a brief description of
- products that work with Interleaf.
-
-
- 3.3.1 Spelling/Grammar Checkers
-
- Chris Talbott reports:
- ¿My group has had Avalanche's ProofPositive in-house for about a year
- now, and it seems to be a fairly nice grammar/style checker. It's
- based on the Houghton-Mifflin engine, and it's pretty quick.
- ProofPositive is an Interleaf layered application which runs against an
- open document on your desktop. It's got a fair level of control over
- which rules it uses and how sensitive it is (e.g. how badly an
- infinitive has to be split before it complains), and it has a
- Dictionary/ Thesaurus program as well. Our only complaint with it is
- that it won't work non-interactively (a key concern for us, maybe not
- for you). Apparently, a future release of PP will allow you to define
- your own grammar rules."
-
- Oracle produces a grammar checker for Interleaf called CoAuthor. It
- seems like it offers roughly the same capability that ProofPositive
- does, for about the same price. It uses its own UI, however, instead
- of the native Interleaf one.
-
- Deborah Graham reports that ProofPositive and CoAuthor do not work
- with Interleaf 6.
-
-
- 3.3.2 SQL
-
- Chris Talbott reports:
- "A third-party tool called Smartleaf allows SQL calls to be embedded
- into Interleaf components, to pull information from databases into a
- formatted Interleaf documents, for example. Smartleaf is produced by
- Database Publishing Software in Woburn, MA. (617-938-0018) They also
- produce a document comparison tool called Smartleaf/Compare. We've had
- Smartleaf/Compare in-house for about as long as we have had
- ProofPositive. The tool is useful for such things as comparing an
- archived version of a document/book with the "current" version
- (especially if several revisions have come between the documents in
- question). As of Apr 1993, the comparison algorithm is not as robust
- as might be desired, and the options for marking the changes in the
- 'difference document' are less than stellar, but their 3.0 release (in
- alpha test Apr 1993?) is supposed to have greatly improved the
- algorithm and the marking options. Database Publishing is also
- involved in developing applications for CALS/SGML support."
-
-
- 3.3.3 Clip Art
-
- For the (now defunct) GenRad newsletter, Deborah Graham used a demo
- package from:
-
- Fusion Graphics
- 1728 Moorpark Road
- Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
- (805) 494-8411
-
- They had an extensive collection of clip art that was compatible with
- Interleaf and other systems. However, Deborah believes that the
- collection is no longer available.
-
-
- 3.3.4 Graphics tools
-
- XV is a shareware program by John Bradley of U. Penn. It can read
- and write GIF, PM, PBM, X11 bitmap, Sun Raster, PostScript, JPEG,
- and TIFF file formats, and is a very useful translation tool. It is
- available via ftp from ftp.cis.upenn.edu in the /pub/xv directory.
-
- IslandPaint, from Island Graphics, is a good bitmap (or raster)
- graphic editor. It can read TIFF, GIF, Group3 FAX, Sun Raster, and
- X11 bitmap files. It can write TIFF and Sun Raster files that
- Interleaf can filter into pasteable graphic images.
-
- IslandDraw, from Island Graphics, is a good object drawing editor.
- It can read and edit EPS, EPS objects, CGM, HPGL, PICT, and Frame
- 3.0 MIF drawings. It writes EPSF, EPSI, TIFF, CGM, and Frame 3.0 MIF
- file formats. Interleaf can directly paste in EPSI drawings (and
- display them on screen as of v5.3.1)
-
- CorelDraw, from Prior Data Sciences, is a drawing program that
- imports and exports "most standard graphics formats such as TIFF
- and EPS".
-
-
- 3.4 Customizing tips
-
-
- 3.4.1 Startup options
-
- Many startup options for Interleaf are configurable via X11 resources.
- See chapter 1 of the Interleaf 5 System Administation manual. Startup
- options start on page 1-8. Xresources are on pages 1-14 through 1-16.
- One favorite addition to $HOME/.Xdefaults files is
-
- Ileaf.geometry: 1141x869+0+0
-
- which works well on Suns to make the desktop window cover the whole
- screen. Many startup options can also be handled with command line
- options.
-
- A list of supported Xresources for Interleaf 6 is provided (with
- usage explanations) in the text file: $ILEAF6_HOME/data/x/Xres
-
-
- 3.4.2 Mouse Buttons
-
- How can you change the default mouse buttons on a site-wide basis?
-
- Edit /interleaf/ileaf5/english.cab/Custom.cab/profile.drw/init.lsp
- (english.cab may be a different name, depending on the installed
- language). Each Interleaf user has a symbolic link to this file from
- their ~/desktop/System5.cab/Custom.cab/profile.drw. Uncomment the
- three lisp commands shown below, and edit them to specify the desired
- system default actions.
- ;;;
- ;;; Mouse button mappings:
- ;;;
- ;(tell *wn-wmgr* mid:set-props :left-button :select)
- ;(tell *wn-wmgr* mid:set-props :middle-button :menu)
- ;(tell *wn-wmgr* mid:set-props :right-button :extend)
- Any user with a customized profile (e.g. created with Profile Tool)
- will get the settings from the profile, overriding these defaults.
-
-
- 3.4.3 Keyboard mapping
-
- Many users have asked about changing the function/behavior of
- certain keys. Some complain of "no R1 key on the Sun keyboard",
- or want "a delete-to-the-right key like TPS4.0 had".
-
- One solution is to use xmodmap(1). This, however, is not a "within
- Interleaf" solution -- xmodmap will change the keyboard mappings for
- the whole login session.
-
- One small example of xmodmap is the following command, which will
- make the "Del" key on the right hand keypad of a Sun (keycode 57)
- perform the function of the "Cut/L10" key ("F20"):
- xmodmap -e keycode 57 + F20
-
-
- 3.4.4 Default document templates
-
- The documents in your ~/desktop/System5.cab/Create.cab are those which
- you see when you press the menu button with nothing selected on the
- desktop, and then pull right a submenu on "Create". Note that some
- files in this directory are typically links into the master cabinet.
- You can remove these links and create your own, or use the more popular
- method of creating your own subdirectory (called "mytemplates.fdr" for
- example). Put your template documents there, and then pull right thru
- Create->mytemplates-> to create new documents.
-
- For site-wide templates, the administrator can place templates in
- the Master System5/Create.cab/Templates.fdr. Each user will have to
- execute Custom-->Misc-->Update in their Templates.fdr to get these
- new templates.
-
-
- 3.4.5 Changing the color of the desktop
-
- With the User Interface Painter, you can make your desktop and icons
- any color you want. You first need to turn on the UI Painter in the
- Custom->ToolMgr. Then you can select a default color scheme from
- Create->Tools->UIPainter, and modify it if you wish with the color
- editor. To make the change permanent, copy the UI Painter icon you
- created into your System5--Custom--profile drawer.
-
- Some users report that use of the UI Painter causes more frequent
- occurrences of SIGSEGV and SIGBUS signals. Revision Tracking has also
- been blamed for this.
-
- Interleaf 6.2 for Win95/NT uses the operating system's color scheme
- (accessible through the Control Panel) and does not have a separate
- UI Painter.
-
-
- 3.4.6 Creating color documents
-
- By default, when you try to Edit->Color, you just get shades of gray.
- You must create any colors you want to use by first going into the
- Palette->Color Editor (document name menu Misc-> pull right menu).
- See your hardcopy Interleaf documentation for details. These colors
- can be made site-wide by modifing the Master document in the Master
- System5 cabinet.
-
-
- 3.4.7 Creating user-defined patterns
-
- By default, interleaf gives you 16 patterns. To add to these, use the
- Pallette->Pattern editor. Again, site-wide patterns should be added
- to the Master document in the Master System5 cabinet.
-
-
-
- 4. MISC USER QUESTIONS
-
-
- 4.1 How can I print "DRAFT" diagonally across the background of each page?
-
- Create a frame in a component and designate the placement as "underlay"
- through the frame props. Enter text string "DRAFT" using ctrl-O,
- convert the text to outline, size it, edit it to a light shade of gray,
- then rotate it. Make the frame shared content, and set props to
- Repeat=Begin, Anchors_Page=Yes so that it will show up on every page of
- the document.
-
-
- 4.2 Is there any way to rotate microdocuments?
-
- No. If you need to rotate text, use ctrl-O text strings (hit ctrl-O
- inside a frame, then enter text). You can only rotate ctrl-O text
- strings in 90-degree increments. To get anything else, convert to
- outline.
-
-
- 4.3 How can I search and replace with a tab or hard return?
-
- In order to search for, or replace with, a tab or a hard return,
- preface the tab or return key with the Esc key. (This is the Alt key
- for the IBM RT, and F11 on DEC/Ultrix and VAX/VMS.)
-
-
- 4.4 Can I get international characters on my U.S. based version of
- Interleaf 5?
-
- Yes, with your cursor in the text area, choose Create->Char, then
- choose the desired font. Extend the menu and you will see the
- international characters. You can also get these through keys as
- described in the online document Compose_Sequences under
- System5->Release Notes.
-
-
- 4.5 Will fast startup under Interleaf 5.3 help with performance?
-
- The fast startup options available under Interleaf 5 (5.3) reduce the
- amount of time it takes to bring up a desktop. However, once the
- desktop is up, no other performance gains are realized. Interleaf
- documentation explains the optional fast startup commands available.
-
- Note two things: (a) fast startup creates a file on your
- desktop about 5mB in size. (b) A substantial amount of system
- state is saved in the fast startup file (that's how it works).
- This often means that under some circumstances you may need to
- remove the file ileaf.fst from your desktop so that it is
- recreated. This is advisable after any new releases of the
- software, of site-wide or individuallly installed
- applications, or in some cases if carelessly written active
- documents make assumptions about the system state.
-
-
-
- 4.6 How can I capture popups in Interleaf 5.3 under OpenWindows?
-
- At the Unix prompt, type
- % sleep 10; capture
- You'll then have 10 seconds to setup the popup to be captured. The
- capture box will appear and mouse control will be transferred to it.
- The middle button will give choices of Move, Capture, Size and Quit.
- Capture will create an image.img file, placed in your home directory,
- that can be pasted into a document.
-
-
- 4.7 Keyboard types
-
- If Interleaf won't start with error messages like:
- In system startup file:
- Error: Wrong argument type: nil
- (logand 32767 (x-keycode-to-keysym 12 0))
-
- then you need to specify your keyboard type with the -keyboard switch:
- ileaf -keyboard keyboard_type
-
- "none" is a valid keyboard type, but you won't have any key mappings,
- like page-up/page-down. The choices in 5.3 are: apollo, aviion, dec,
- hp, rs6000, sun_type3, sun_type4, none. (The command switches are in
- the System Administration manual.)
-
- If you have a Sun Type 5 keyboard, you need the "patch tape" which
- brings Interleaf 5.3 to 5.3.1.
-
-
- 4.8 Does Interleaf read this newsgroup?
-
- "Lots of us at Interleaf, from all walks, read the messages. And we're
- very glad this newsgroup is up and running. But we also recognize that
- this is a medium for our users, not for Interleaf, Inc. So, we are
- encouraging Interleafers not to jump into discussions prematurely. Our
- unofficial policy is that if a Leafer has an answer to a question which
- other users don't appear to be responding to (or if it's a request for
- information that really should be addressed by us), then we'll reply
- privately. There may, of course, be occasions where a public reply
- makes most sense, so we won't rule that out."
-
-
- 4.9 Why does my tutorial crash?
-
- Many problems were noticed with the tutorial in v5.2. Many of these
- were fixed in v5.3. Paranoid users who wish to run the tutorial might
- want to temporarily rename their desktop directory before running the
- tutorial, and then rename it back when finished.
-
-
- 4.10 Why doesn't Interleaf have an indent command or keystroke?
-
- It's not appropriate for Interleaf to have a simple indent command.
- Property Sheets are germane to the point of structured document
- editors. If you "merely" indent without changing the document objects,
- you are essentially imputing structure from format. This is a Bad
- Thing as it makes it very difficult to edit structure later on. On the
- other hand, format deduced from structure, as provided by many systems
- with "style sheet"-like mechanisms, is easy to edit. Also, it does not
- lead to confusion when the format is to be changed. For a most
- dramatic example, see "Can Structured Formatters Prevent Train
- Crashes?", J. Andre, Electronic Publishing---Origination,
- Dissemination and Design (EP-ODD), v. 2 #3, pp169-174, October 1989).
-
- However, it is possible in Interleaf 5 to provide keyboard actions
- which will edit structure as well as content. Bob Morris has written
- some Lisp which will do this for the indentation toggling problem.
- Contact him at ram@cs.umb.edu for more info.
-
-
- 4.11 Memory leaks
-
- Interleaf has been known to allocate large amounts of virtual memory
- and never give it back. If you get an "out of memory" message, try
- exiting Interleaf and trying the operation again. Users who remain
- logged in for days/weeks/months with Interleaf running the whole time
- exacerbate this problem. You can use the Unix "pstat -T" command to
- view the amount of virtual memory being used.
-
- Under HP-UX, use "/etc/swapinfo -t" instead of pstat. HP-UX has some
- memory leak problems in the vfork() call that can be fixed with kernel
- patch PHKL_0743 for HP-UX 8.07.
-
- Patch PRA # 93-15 for Interleaf 5.3.1 is available to address memory
- leak problems. Some sites have already worked around this problem
- by running on workstations with large amounts of memory and swap
- space.
-
-
- 4.12 Runaway processes; exiting Interleaf
-
- If Interleaf is not exited properly, it may continue to run. Sun
- OpenWindows users, for example, may logout via the OpenWindows menu's
- "Exit". This will cause Interleaf to continue to run, consuming memory
- and cpu time.
-
-
- 4.13 How do I get a clock permanently on my desktop?
-
- Copy the Clock.lsp lisp program to your profile drawer. Any lisp
- programs in your profile drawer will be run every time you start
- Ileaf.
-
- For Unix types:
- % cp /interleaf/ileaf5/english.cab/Custom.cab/No_Selection.cab\
- /Misc.drw/Clock.lsp ~/desktop/System5.cab/Custom.cab/profile.drw
-
- (note that the above is one line, and that I broke the pathname
- in the middle)
-
- For Interleaf types:
- open System5->Custom->No_Selection->Misc
- copy the Clock lisp icon
- open System5->Custom->profile
- paste the Clock lisp icon at the bottom right.
-
- Lisp hackers can now edit your copy of Clock.lsp, and change the
- font/window size/window postion/etc.
-
-
- 4.14 I created a file in my desktop directory but Interleaf doesn't see it!
-
- Any files created under your desktop directory by processes other than
- Interleaf (e.g. from a Unix shell prompt) while Interleaf is running
- do not appear as icons. Conversely, files removed still have icons
- displayed.
-
- To make newly created files appear, choose Custom->Rescan. Automatic
- rescan can be set in your profile using the profile tool, but since
- it slows things down it is disabled by default.
-
- Also use Rescan when removing files, but remember that any FileName.doc
- will have a .@FileName.doc file associated with it for icon
- positioning. If you don't remove both files, you'll get strange
- behavior later.
-
-
- 4.15 What are all these funny Unix filenames? What's this Mona Lisa icon?
-
- If you cd to your desktop directory and do an ls -a, you may see things
- that don't seem to correspond to the icons Interleaf shows you. These
- are documented on pages 1-6 through 1-8 of the System Administration
- manual, along with the meaning of each type of icon.
-
-
- 4.16 Is there any way to count the number of words in an Interleaf document?
-
- If you have a lot of documents and want to automate this, you may well
- find it easier and faster to run Unix shell scripts which:
- 1. Run Interleaf in batch mode to make the files interleaf ascii.
- 2. Run textfilt to strip markup.
- 3. Use the Unix wc(1) program to count words.
-
- Bob Morris has written some Lisp code which will count words. It may
- or may not be useful to you. Ask him for details.
-
-
- 4.17 Is there a way to sum up or sort a row or column in a table?
-
- David Lightman reports that there is a simple Lisp script available
- from the Leafline (q.v.) which sorts a column in ascending ascii.
-
- Also he has written some Lisp scripts to sum a column (sorry haven't
- done rows), along with changing the attributes of row components based
- on a value you enter (simple database query idea). Contact him for
- more info.
-
-
- 4.18 Is there a way to view an Interleaf document without starting Ileaf?
-
- This is what Interleaf's WorldView product can do. (q.v.)
-
-
- 4.19 When I try to fill a box, I get a diagonal line instead!
-
- This is a bug that occurs when you use "Zoom" (in the pulldown menu
- under the "View" bar just below the filename). It occurs only when
- "View" is different than "x1". Use "Zoom" for text only. If you want
- to zoom in on a graphics object, inside the frame use the pullright
- menu option Misc->View->Magnify->Larger.
-
-
- 4.20 Big blank white squares
-
- On some systems, after you dismiss a menu or other popup over the
- desktop, the space under the menu will remain as a blank white square,
- instead of refreshing. The fix for this is to edit the .Xdefaults file
- and add:
- Ileaf.popup.saveUnder: true
- This behavior seems common on systems running the MIT X11R5
- server. Note that the precise capitalization of the string
- Ileaf.popup.saveUnder is critical.
-
-
-
- 4.21 How do I start a new page with component xyzzy?
-
- Select the component xyzzy, open its props, and click on Page props.
- Set the start new page to Yes.
-
-
- 4.22 How do I line up columns? Spaces don't work.
-
- Use tabs and set the spacing on the Tab Property sheet for the
- component. You can also use this to align numbers on a decimal
- point. Better yet, use tables.
-
-
- 4.23 How do I combine two separate documents into one?
-
- Select the first document and open it. Select the second document
- and cut it. Now move to the point in the open document you want to
- place the cut document, and execute paste in the COMPONENT BAR.
-
-
- 4.24 What useful lisp scripts come with Interleaf?
-
- If your administrator has installed Leafware from the distribution
- tape, you have access to a many UNSUPPORTED lisp scripts. One that
- may prove useful is keyboard-typo (a better name is auto-quote).
- This automatically puts in an open qoute or close quote as required;
- it also changes the - to a hyphen instead of a minus sign. Another
- useful script is iconify, which allows you to hide your open document
- window and gives you back your desktop space so you can find another
- document. There is also a script to mail an ascii stripfiltered
- version of your document to a person you specify.
-
- Interleaf 6.2 for Win95/NT no longer has the typo script. It does
- support some of the script's features in the Tools -> Preferences
- command (which replaces Interleaf 5's Profile Tool).
-
-
- 4.25 What is "Interleaf-J" ?
-
- That's the Japanese (kanji) version of Interleaf. It is reported to
- have slightly greater memory/swap requirements than the English
- version.
-
-
- 4.26 How do I email Interleaf documents?
-
- There are several ways you can email Interleaf documents:
-
- o If you know the recipient has Interleaf, you can use one
- of two methods:
-
- - Save the document as Interleaf ASCII, then include it in a
- mail file
-
- - Using OpenLook Mailtool, send the normal (binary) Interleaf
- document as an attachment. The mailtool encodes the binary
- file for you so it mails successfully. It will complain if
- the document is too large. Also, it must be manually decoded
- if the recipient is not working in an Openwindows environment.
-
- Refer to the OpenWindows documentation for more information.
-
- Note that this only works in OpenWindows version 3, not in
- version 2. Version 3 doesn't run on 3/xx machines - it would
- be safer to stick to ASCII if you're not sure what machine
- your recipient is using.
-
- o If the recipient does not have Interleaf, you can strip the
- Interleaf document down into a plain ascii file which you can
- then load into a mail file. This method is fine if you just
- want to transfer text, but you lose any graphics in frames.
-
- The instructions below are for people with not much experience at
- using mail, so they're fairly detailed. They also had to cover
- people who don't have workstations, so it includes instructions on
- using the mail program rather than the mailtool.
-
- Sending a Document
- ------------------
- To send an Interleaf document through email, follow this procedure.
-
- 1. In Interleaf, save the document in ASCII (Save->ASCII)
-
- 2. Mail the ASCII file with one of the following methods:
-
- a. Redirect the file into the mail message with a single
- command. For example,
-
- %mail andrew < ~/desktop/whatsup.doc
-
- b. Enter the mail environment or open a mailtool and then
- read in the file. Use this method if you wish to preface or
- follow the document you are sending with text. For example,
-
- In the mail environment:
- 1) Type mail andrew
- 2) Enter any required text.
- 3) Type ~r ~/desktop/whatsup.doc
- 4) Enter CONTROL D or a period (.) alone on a line
- to end the message.
-
- Using a mailtool (SunView):
- 1) Press the Compose button to bring up a compose window.
- 2) Fill in the To, Subject, and Cc fields.
- 3) Enter any required text.
- 4) Read in the document:
- i. In the message area, type in the pathname of the
- document, eg, ~/desktop/whatsup.doc.
- ii. Highlight the pathname and then execute the
- "File->Include File" option on the menu.
- 5) Hit the Deliver button.
-
- Using a mailtool (OpenWindows):
- 1) Press the Compose button to bring up a compose window.
- 2) Fill in the To, Subject, and Cc fields.
- 3) Enter any required text.
- 4) Load in the document:
- i. In the message area, execute File > Include file
- ii. Enter the name of the document in the popup & press
- the "Include File" button.
- 5) Hit the Deliver button in the Mailtool to send the mail.
-
- When the document is inserted into the mail message, it is in
- ASCII format. The first line is always:
-
- <!OPS, Version = 6.4> (for Interleaf 4 documents)
- <!OPS, Version = 8.0> (for Interleaf 5 documents)
-
- Text preceding this line must be deleted by the recipient before
- the converting the file back to an Interleaf document.
-
- Receiving a Document
- --------------------
- To convert a file received through mail back into an Interleaf
- document, follow the procedure shown below.
-
- Using the mail environment:
-
- 1. Change into your desktop directory and enter the mail
- environment.
-
- andrew% cd ~/desktop
- andrew% mail
-
- 2. Save the appropriate mail message into a file. In the
- following example, the header command lists the headers of
- a user's mail messages. The user saves message #2 into a
- file named whatsup.doc.
-
- &h
- U 1 fred@sun1 Fri Jan 19 10:09 41/1043 message from bill
- > 2 dick Fri Jan 19 15:37 68/2362 What's Up Doc?
- &save 2 whatsup.doc
- "whatsup.doc" [New file] 68/2363
-
- If you do a Custom -> Rescan, you will see the Interleaf
- document icon is now your desktop. DON'T open it yet - goto
- step 3 below to edit out the mail header and any other extra
- text first.
-
- Using a mailtool (SunView):
-
- 1. Open the mailtool and Show the appropriate message.
- 2. Save the appropriate mail message into a file in your desktop
- directory. For example, type the following at the mailtool
- "File:" prompt:
-
- ~/desktop/whatsup.doc
-
- then hit the Save button. If you do a Custom -> Rescan, you
- will see the Interleaf document icon is now your desktop.
- DON'T open it yet - goto step 3 below to edit out the mail
- header and any other extra text first.
-
- Using a mailtool (OpenWindows):
-
- 1. Open the mailtool and View the appropriate message.
- 2. Save the appropriate mail message into a file in your desktop
- directory by entering the pathname of the file in the "Mail
- File" field (e.g. ~/desktop/whatsup.doc) and pressing the "Move"
- button.
-
- If you do a Custom -> Rescan, you will see the Interleaf
- document icon is now your desktop. DON'T open it yet - goto
- step 3 below to edit out the mail header and any other extra
- text first.
-
- The next four steps are the same whatever mail environment you use.
-
- 3. In a shell window, edit the file on your desktop.
- 4. Delete all lines up to the line <!OPS, Version = 8.0>.
- This must be the first line of the file in order for it
- to convert back to an Interleaf document.
- 5. Save the file.
- 6. Back in Interleaf, open the file icon on your desktop.
-
-
- 4.27 How can I email a Postscript version of an Interleaf doc?
-
- You create a PostScript version of the document and email that -
- useful if your recipient doesn't have Interleaf but does have a
- PostScript printer.
-
- Procedure
- ---------
- If you don't have Postscript set up as an option on your printer
- menu, you have to print to Printerleaf then filter the Printerleaf
- to Postscript as follows:
-
- 1. Print the document to a Printerleaf file
- ( Print -> Document -> <Printerleaf> )
- The Printerleaf file will be placed on your desktop.
-
- 2. INTERLEAF 4:
-
- /interleaf/tps4.0/sysio/ps/pl2ps -T pslw+ < printerleaf_file > ps_file
-
- INTERLEAF 5:
-
- /interleaf/ileaf5/bin/pl2ps -i printerleaf_file -o ps_file
-
- 3. Mail the PostScript file.
-
- The recipient must delete everything up to the line
-
- %!PS-Adobe-
-
-
- 4.28 How do I stop a document from opening once it has started?
-
- Hit CTRL-G to cancel the open.
-
-
- 4.29 How can I get Revision Bars to stay on when I'm working in
- a document - I don't want to have to keep turning them on all
- the time.
-
- To get Revision Bars to appear wherever you add new text in a
- document, set the text property to "persistent Rev Bars" when you
- first open your document:
-
- 1. Move the cursor up into the Text properties box in the doc
- header (probably says something like <Default Text Props> or
- American-English or at the moment)
-
- 2. Execute Rev Bars -> Persistent from the pulldown menu
-
- This will create a rev bar for every new line of text you write,
- as you write it, even in new components you create. This is more
- automatic than the old method of turning rev bars ON then typing -
- whenever you moved the text cursor, the rev bars would turn
- themselves off.
-
- Even with persistent rev bars, they can get turned off if you
- start doing fancy things with text properties, but generally this
- works.
-
- If you want a record of stuff you remove as well as change and
- add, then you need to look into Revision Tracking, and that's
- another story...
-
-
- 4.30 How do I change the size of the Interleaf desktop on startup?
-
- The default size of the desktop when you run Interleaf 5 under
- OpenWindows is annoyingly small. You can change the size of the
- window in two ways - using the -geometry startup option or by
- adding a line to your .Xdefaults.
-
- -geometry startup option
- ------------------------
-
- /interleaf/ileaf5/bin/ileaf -geometry 1062x869+0+0
-
- This will give you a window the full height of the screen,
- with an icon-sized gap on the right hand size.
-
- .Xdefaults
- ----------
- Add the following line to your $HOME/.Xdefaults file:
-
- Ileaf.geometry: 1141x869+0+0
-
- This makes the desktop window cover the whole screen top to
- bottom, and leaves an icon-width strip down the right-hand side of
- the screen for all your other OpenWindows applications & tools.
-
-
- 4.31 How do I save the state of my desktop from one session to the next
- (so containers etc are left open)?
-
- Use the command-line argument -restore when you start up
- Interleaf. This will open the desktop in the state you left it
- at the end of the last session, complete with open containers &
- documents.
-
- [So long as all open documents are saved, Interleaf should let
- you exit in the normal way. It won't let you exit with unsaved
- open documents - you get the message "Cannot Exit the desktop
- until you Save or Close these documents". So all you do is
- save without closing, then exit.]
-
-
- 5. Platform-Specific questions
-
-
- 5.1 DEC VMS
-
- Note: Most of this information can be found in the RELEASE NOTES.
-
-
- 5.1.1 What are the most common issues users encounter when installing and
- configuring Interleaf 5 on DEC VMS?
-
- To install Interleaf 5, a minimum of 20K free disk blocks is required
- on the system disk. This is used as temporary file storage in
- SYS$UPDATE during VMSINSTAL. This is temporary file storage, not
- permanent. Should the installation fail due to insufficient disk space
- on the system disk, some files may be left kicking around in
- SYS$UPDATE. These should be deleted prior to rerunning VMSINSTAL.
-
- In some cases, Interleaf 5 gets installed with incorrect file
- ownerships and file protections. The installation procedure attempts
- to set the file ownership to SYSTEM. This will fail if the identifier
- [SYSTEM] does not exist. This can be fixed by setting the files
- ownership to [1,4], and resetting file protections to WORLD
- READ/EXECUTE. For example:
- $ SET FILE/OWNER=[1,4]/PROT=W:RE disk:[dir...]*.*;*
-
- If the Interleaf top level home directory is created prior running
- VMSINSTAL, WORLD protections must be set to READ/EXECUTE.
-
- If running TPS4 and Interleaf 5 concurrently, do not change the IWS
- symbol definition for Interleaf 5 as this is called for other routines
- such as PRINTER_INSTALL and LICENSE_INSTALL.
-
- Do not install FMU in the Interleaf 5 hierarchy. This will cause
- problems with LICENSE_INSTALL and possibly other routines.
-
-
- 5.1.2 What can I do to increase the performance of Interleaf 5 under VMS?
-
- Some performance gains can be acquired by properly tuning the system.
- Adjusting working sets so that the Interleaf user has access to all
- available free memory can help. This can be done by doing the
- following:
-
- Run WSMAX.COM to find out how large the SYSGEN parameter WSMAX can be
- set.
- $ @IWS5$BIN:WSMAX
- Add the value that WSMAX.COM provided to MODPARAMS.DAT
-
- $ SET DEFAULT SYS$SYSTEM:
- $ EDIT MODPARAMS.DAT
- (add or modify the value of MIN_WSMAX to the one provided by WSMAX.COM)
-
- Modify the UAF records for the Interleaf user(s) by setting their
- WSEXTENT to be equal to the value supplied by WSMAX.COM
-
- $ RUN AUTHORIZE
- UAF> MODIFY user/WSEXT=XXXXX !where user = the Interleaf username
- and XXXXX = WSMAX
- UAF> EXIT
-
- Now run Autogen to set the SYSGEN param WSMAX and reboot
- $ @SYS$UPDATE:AUTOGEN SAVPARAMS SETPARAMS
- $ @SYS$SYSTEM:SHUTDOWN
- When the system comes back up, these changes should be in place.
-
-
- 5.2 DOS
-
- 5.2.1 How is the performance of Interleaf on the DOS platform?
-
- One may assume that since Interleaf is often slow on a workstation,
- it must be unbearable on a DOS machine. "Not so!", say the DOS
- Interleaf users. Bob Morris reports that his 33mHz 486 with 8MB
- memory and a 12ms IDE disk is faster than his SPARCstation 1.
- Note that most workstation users have to deal with multitasking
- operating systems that do not dedicate 100% of their cycles to
- running Interleaf, plus they often NFS-mount the executables and/or
- the data. A workstation with a fast local disk would be a different
- story.
-
-
- 5.2.2 How can I run stuff from the command line under DOS?
-
- With I5 DOS all of the filters and print programs are implemented as
- Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL's). This means that the command line
- invocation requires a slight twist. All of the same I5 programs exist
- (pl2ps for example) but have an extension of ".i5". These files must
- be run from the command line with the loader "i5load.exe". The way to
- run the filters is then (while cd'd to \ileaf5\bin):
-
- C:\ILEAF5\BIN> I5LOAD PL2PS.I5 -v -ppd NULL.PPD -i docname.pl -o docname.ps
-
-
-
- 6.0 Interleaf 6
-
- Interleaf 6.0 offers very little absolute new functionality
- over Interleaf 5. The release is mainly intended to offer a
- system more easily used by people familiar with X-windows and
- Microsoft Windows.
-
- A brief personally edited list of some typical differences,
- written by Bob Morris, follows. For how to get more detailed
- information, see the Appendix below.
-
- a. The UI is conformant to Motif and incorporates some Windows
- features.
-
- b. Multiple property sheets can be open at one time.
-
- c. Online documentation is hypertext, based on WorldView.
-
- d. Search and Replace is improved.
-
- e. Editable text can be rotated 90 degrees.
-
- f. Initial content of componets can call Lisp functions for
- computationally determined content, e.g. the current date.
-
- g. Printer administration is simplified.
-
-
- 7.0 Cyberleaf
-
- Cyberleaf is an Interleaf product for the creation and
- management of Webs in the WorldWide Web. It translates
- to HTML (the WWW format) from several popular formats,
- including WordPerfect 5.x, Microsoft Word 6.0, Interleaf,
- plain text, and (without change) HTML. The software allows
- a point-and click creation of hypertext links, translates
- links from those source documents which support them, and
- arranges for the deposit of the resulting Web in a
- specified location. Styles in the input document can be
- mapped to particular HTML styles at the choice of the user.
-
- The Unix version of Cyberleaf 1.0 was released in
- February, 1995. Requirements:
-
- Sun Sparc2/IPX (or greater)
- under Sun OS 4.1.x, or Solaris 2.x
- 24mB RAM, 65mB disk, 64mB swap
-
- HP 700/8xx
- under HP-UX v9.x
- 32mB RAM, 65mB Disk, 64mB Swap
-
- IBM RS/6000
- under AIX 3.2.x
- 32mB RAM, 64mB Disk, 64mB Swap
-
- Dec AXP
- under OSF/1
- 48mB RAM, 64mB Disk, 64mB Swap
-
- Cyberleaf version 2.0 is available for Windows NT and Windows 95.
-
- Cyberleaf and other Interleaf product information is available
- on the Web at http://www.interleaf.com.
-
-
- 7.1 Cyberleaf + Interleaf 6.2
-
- A package bundling Cyberleaf 2.0 for Windows NT/95 and Interleaf
- 6.2 for Windows NT/95 is available from Interleaf.
-
-
- 8.0 Intellecte/BusinessWeb
-
- Intellecte/BusinessWeb is an application template that
- provides a web browser user interface to Interleaf RDM
- repositories and WorldView collections. Once installed,
- BusinessWeb runs on top of an HTTP server. When users
- visit a specific URL, they are taken to the BusinessWeb
- homepage and then navigate to a Search page. This is
- how users "extract" documents from the RDM or WV locations.
- Files matching the query string are returned in a list.
- The files are either downloaded to the user's disk or
- viewed in a helper application.
-
- Intellecte/BusinessWeb 1.2 is currently shipping on
- Sun OS 4, Solaris, DEC-AXPOSF, HP-UX, IBM-RS6000.
- Clients running a browser on any platform can use
- BusinessWeb. The platform lists refers only to
- where the server can be installed and run from.
-
- Customers' Web administrators can modify all the source
- code and HTML files shipped with BusinessWeb to create a
- site-customized solution.
-
- BusinessWeb CheckIn is an add-on component to BusinessWeb
- that allows users to not only check out files from an
- RDM repository from their browser, but also check new
- files in.
-
-
- Appendix: Other sources of information
-
-
- A.1.1 Bob Morris has an ANONYMOUS FTP site at UMASS-Boston.
- On ftp.cs.umb.edu, see the /pub/interleaf directory. Many
- LISP scripts such as "autodate"are in the /pub/interleaf/lisp
- directory. Contributions of interesting LISP scripts are welcome.
- The comp.text.interleaf newsgroup is archived in /pub/news, and
- comp.text.sgml and maybe some other stuff may be archived soon.
- comp.text.interleaf is also available from cs.umb.edu's GOPHER
- server.
-
- These archvives can be accessed via gopher against
- ftp.cs.umb.edu in the interleaf directory, or on the World Wide
- Web at http://ftp.cs.umb.edu/interleaf. The Interleaf-UMB
- University program for US university site licenses is
- referenced in http://www.cs.umb.edu/~serl.
-
- A.1.2 Many local Interleaf user groups and other companies/organizations
- publish their own NEWSLETTERS. The following user groups are known
- to exist:
-
- Interleaf Sweden User Group (ISUG)
- c/o Per Hallenborg
- Vattenfall Fuel
- S-162 87 Stockholm
- Sweden
- Email: hbg@fuel.vattenfall.se
- Phone: +46 8 739 69 68
-
- Interleaf users in Norway and Finland are welcome. Meets twice a
- year, spring and fall. About 50 members. Publishes newsletter
- ISUG-BLADET (subscriptions available).
-
- Club des Utilisateurs Interleaf (CUI France)
- 9 Avenue Franklin Roosevelt
- 75008 Paris
- France
- Email: info_cui@cui.fr
- Web: Http://www.cui.fr
- Phone: 08 55 50 40
-
- Official French user group. More than 30 French companies
- represented. Meets in Paris.
-
- A.2 Interleaf has a Web server at www.interleaf.com.
-
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- *** END OF INTERLEAF FAQ ***
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- Bob Morris Dept. of Math and CS, UMASS-Boston, Boston, MA 02125-3393
- ram@cs.umb.SPAM-NOT.edu telephone 617-287-6466
-