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                           SCRIBE Reference Card
     (For a complete list of commands, see the SCRIBE Users Guide, Release 4)

@@      - Produces a literal "@" character in the document.
@!      - Sets return marker to current horizontal cursor position.
@/      - Moves the cursor to the return marker.
@*      - Forces a line break (without performing justification).
@:      - Forces a sentence break.
@#      - Leaves a quad space.
@+      - SuperScript
@-      - SubScript
@\      - Moves the cursor to the next tab stop or marks the end of text being
           centered or flushedd right.
@^      - Sets a tab at the current cursor position.
@>      - Marks the left end of text to be flushed right.
@=      - Marks the left end of text to be centered.
@&      - Repeats characters between @& and the next command from the current
           position until the next tab setting.
@)      - Like @&, but synchronized in fixed columns from one line to the next.
@.      - Generates a period that is not the end of a sentence.
@_      - Conditional hyphen.
@|      - Conditional linebreak.

@Appendix[text] - Starts a new page with the Appendix text as given and places
        it in the Table of contents.
@Appendixsection[text] - Subsection of Appendix.
@B[phrase] - Boldface.
@Begin[command] - long form of command (see command types below).
    Center          Centered lines
    Description     Paragraphs with headers in a widened left margin
    Display         Unjustified text with widened margins
    Enumerate       Numbered paragraphs with widened margins
    Equation        Equation, numbered in the right margin
    Example         Unjustified text with widened margins in a fixed-width
                     typeface
    Figure          Figure with appropriately-numbered caption
    FlushRight      Flushed right lines
    FlushLeft       Flushed left lines
    Format          Hand-formatted text
    Itemize         Marked paragraphs with widened margins
    Math            Math in running text
    MathDisplay     Math in examples and displays
    Quotation       Text with widened margins
    Theorem         Theorem, numbered in the right margin
    Titlepage       TitlePage
    Transparent     Dummy environment
    Verbatim        Characters copied exactly, without formatting, in a
                     fixed-width typeface
    Verse           Verse quotation with widened margins

@Bibliography - puts the Bibliography at this point.  Usually it goes at the
        end and is activated automatically by any use of a @Cite command.
        Bibliography entries take the form:

        @DocumentType[identifier, parameter list]

        where "DocumentType" is one of Article, Book, Booklet, Conference,
        InBook, InCollection, InProceedings, MastersThesis, Manual, Misc,
        PhdThesis, Proceedings, TechReport, or Unpublished.
        The complete set of parameters is:

    Address         The address of the publisher or printer or organization.
    Author          The name of the author or authors.  Put names in the order.
    Annote          Any annotation text.  Conditionally printed.
    BookTitle       Title of Book or Proceedings.
    Chapter         Part of a Book.
    Edition         Edition name or number.
    Editor(S)       Name(s) of the editor(s).
    FullAuthor      The full name of an author, without commas.
    HowPublished    For unusual manuscripts, how it came into your possession.
    Institution     The name of the organization or institution backing or
                     publishing a technical report or a proceeding.
    Journal         The title of a journal.
    Key             The sort key.
    Month           January, February, etc.
    Note            Any comment.  Always printed.
    Number          Issue number of a journal or publication series.
    Organization    The name of the organization holding a conference.
    Pages           The page numbers.
    Publisher       The name of the publishing company.
    School          For theses, the name of the school granting the degree.
    Series          The name of a book series.
    Title           The title of the article, paper, book, etc. being cited.
    Type            Alternate name for a technical report.
    Volume          The volumn number for journals or book series.
    Year            The year of publication in four digits.

@BlankPage[number of pages] - leaves that number of blank pages after the
        current page.
@Blankspace[size] - leaves a blank space of the indicated size (inches,
        cm, mm, points, picas, ems (quads), chars (ens), or lines).
@C[phrase] - SMALL CAPITALS.
@Caption[Text] - puts the word "Figure" and the appropriate number
        of the Caption before the centered text.
@Chapter[text] - starts a chapter with the text as given.
        It will place the correct chapter number on the page and put a
        reference in the Table of Contents.
@Cite[codeword] - Generates a bibliography citation in the text and places
        the bibliography entry in the document's Bibliography.
@Comment[text] - puts an unprinted comment in the source file.
@Device[output device] - sets up the output device as follows:

 Device       File      Page         Page
  Code     Extension   Length        Width          Description

  AJ832       .POD    11 inches     8.5 inches     Anderson-Jacobsen 832
  AJ833       .POD    11 inches     8.5 inches     Anderson-Jacobsen 833
  CRT         .DOC    24 lines      79 cols        CRT, screen size paging
  DIABLO      .POD    11 inches     8.5 inches     Diablo HyType printer
  FILE        .DOC    no limit      79 cols        CRT, no paging
  GIGI        .GG     479 rasters   767 rasters    DEC VK100 (GIGI) terminal
  IMPRINT10   .IMP    11 inches     8.5 inches     Imagen Imprint10
  LA36        .TXT    66 lines      132 cols       LA36 DECwriterII
  LPT         .LPT    57 lines      132 cols       Line printer [standard]
  PAGEDFILE   .DOC    57 lines      79 cols        CRT, page size paging
  PRINTRONIX  .LPT    57 lines      132 cols       Printronix Printer
  SPINWRITER  .POD    11 inches     8.5 inches     NEC SpinWriter Terminal
  TI700       .TXT    66 lines      80 cols        Texas Instruments Silent 700
  TI725       .TXT    66 lines      80 cols        Texas Instruments Silent 725
  X2700       .X27    11 inches     8.5 inches     Xerox 2700 Laser Printer
  X2700II     .X27    11 inches     8.5 inches     Xerox 2700 Laser Printer II
  X9700       .X9700  11 inches     8.5 inches     Xerox 9700 Laser Printer

@End[command] - ends the command block (see @Begin).
@Equate[newname=name] - changes a command name.
@Foot[text] - inserts a reference to the footnote and puts the
        numbered footnote text at the bottom of the page.
@G[phrase] - Greek.
@Heading[text] - prints the heading text in medium-size letters, centered.
@Hinge - Allows a grouped environment to be broken at the point of the call.
        @Hinge always forces a new output line.
@I[phrase] - Italics.
@Include[file name] - Makes SCRIBE suspend processing of the main manuscript
        file, process a second file, then resumes processing of the
        original manuscript file.
@Index[entry] - places a reference to the entry in the index.
@Label[codeword] - marks the page and section number of the codeword
        for reference by @Ref and @Pageref.
@MajorHeading[text] - prints the heading text in large letters, centered.
@Make[document type] - builds a document type.  Predefined types are:

    Article           A sectioned document. Produces numbered Sections,
                      SubSections, Paragraphs, and Appendices.  No Index.
    Article, Form 1   Same are Article, but sectioning is not numbered.
    Bibliography      Produces a Bibliography only.
    Brochure          Open, informal layout with lots of white space.  Provides
                        numbered Chapters, Sections, SubSections, Paragraphs,
                        Appendices, and AppendixSections.
    Guide             Similar to Brochure, but designed to be printed in a
                        handbook-size format.
    Letter            A letter.
    LetterHead        A business letter with CMU letterhead.
    Manual            A sectioned document. Produces numbered Chapters,
                        Sections, SubSections, Paragraphs, Appendices and
                        AppendixSections.  Has a Table of Contents, and
                        TitlePage and Index on demand.
    Manual, Form 1    Same as Manual, except all Sections are unnumbered except
                        Chapters and Appendices.
    MilStd837a        Miliary Standard Document 837A.
    ReferenceCard     Produces a pocket reference guide or card. Each panel of
                        the reference card corresponds to one Scribe page.
                        The output is intended for 65% reduction, yielding a
                        finished size of 3.6 inches by 8.5 inches for each
                        panel.
    Report            Like Manual but with no Index.
    Report, Form 1    Like Report, but only Chapters are numbered.
    Slides            Makes overhead-projector slides.  Font sizes and spacing
                      have been selected to make the slides maximally visible
                      at normal projection distances.   Only possible on some
                      devices.
    Text              Default document type.  No automatic sectioning, Table of
                      Contents, or Index.
    Thesis            CMU Thesis Format.

@Modify[environment,list of changes] - globally changes an enviroment.
@NewColumn[] - begins a new column in multicolumn output.
@NewPage - starts a new page immediately (same as @NewPage[0]).
@NewPage[positive number] - leaves a number of pages without test, but
        with headers and footers, if defined.
@Note[text] - inserts a reference to the  endote and puts the numbered endnote
        at the end of the document in the Note Section.
@Ovp[text1]text2 - prints text2 over text2.
@P[phrase] - Bold Italics.
@PageFooting[left string1, center string2, right string3] - places the
        strings at the bottom of the page at the corresponding locations.
        Useful keywords: Immediate, even, odd.
@PageHeading[left string1, center string2, right string3] - same as above,
        except at top of the page.
@Pageref[codeword] - puts in the page number of the page on which a
        @Tag[codeword] or @Label[codeword] command occurred.
@Paragraph[text] - starts a paragraph with the text as given.
        It will place the correct paragraph number on the page and put a
        reference in the Table of Contents.
@Part[part name, root "file name"] - defines a file to be a subpart of
        an entire document whose root name is "file name".
@PrefaceSection[text] - starts a major section with the text as given.
        It will unnumbered but will be referenced in the Table of Contents.
@R[phrase] - Roman (the normal type face).
@Ref[codeword] - puts in the text the thing or place marked by a
        @Tag[codeword] or @Label[codeword] command.
@Section[text] - starts a section with the text as given.
        It will place the correct section number on the page and put a
        reference in the Table of Contents.
@Set[phrase] - allows you to change the counter values of page, chapter,
        theorem number, etc.
@String[codeword="value"] - defines "codeword" as a text string with the
        contents equal to the delimited string "value"  (see @Value).
@Style[parameters] - allows you to change the appearance of the document
        in a number of ways, some of which are:

    BottomMargin    Changes the vertical distance between the last line of text
                      and the bottom of the page.
    ColumnMargin    Specifies the distance between columns in multicolumn text.
    Citation        Specifies the citation format.
    CitationSeparator  A string to be used for separating multiple citations.
    CitationType    Specifies how citations are to appear in the text.
    Date            A template for printing dates, using some representation of
                      March 8, l952.
    DoubleSided     Allows for odd and even pages to have different designs.
    EndNotes        Footnotes generated by the @Foot command are placed at
                      the end of the document.
    ExceptionDictionary  String in quotes names an Exception Dictionary to
                      be used with the hyphenation algorithm.
    FontFamily      Designates the FontFamily for devices that can change
                      fonts.
    FootNotes       Specifies the numbering style to use for marking footnotes
                      in the text and in the footnote itself.  Takes a
                      numbering template as a value.
    Hyphenation     Specifies method of Hyphenation.
    Indentation     Horizontal distance indicating amount of indenting for each
                      paragraph, relative to its left margin.
    Justification   Controls justification of right margin.
    LeftMargin      Horizontal distance of the global left margin from the
                      physical left margin.
    LineWidth       Horizontal distance from the global left margin to the end
                      of the line.
    Notes           Specifies where to place footnotes.
    PageNumber      A counter template specifying the style of page numbering.
    References      Specifies reference and citation style.
    RightMargin     Horizontal distrance between the end of the text line and
                      the global right margin.
    ScriptPush      Determines whether to add extra vertical spacing for
                      subscripts and superscripts.
    ShortestHyphenatable  The length of the shortest word to be hyphenated.
    SingleSided     Turns off Doublesided.
    Spacing         Vertical distance from base of one line of text to the
                      base of the next.
    Spread          Vertical distance added to Spacing to specify the vertical
                      distance between paragraphs
    Time            A template specifying the format in which @Value[Time] will
                      be printed.  Must be some representation of 4:30 PM.
    TopMargin       Vertical distance from the top of the paper to the baseline
                      of the first text line on the page.
    WidestBlank     A horizontal distance giving the maximum amount of white
                      space that will be tolerated in a line before hyphenation
                      will be attempted.
    WidowAction     Controls the processing of widows and orphans.

@SubHeading[text] - prints a SubHeading with normal-size boldface letters,
        flush to the left margin.
@Subsection[text] - starts a subsection with the text as given.
        It will place the correct subsection number on the page and put a
        reference in the Table of Contents.
@T[phrase] - Typewriter font.
@Tabclear - clears any set tabs.
@TabDivide[number] - divides the line into number equal tab stops.
@Tabs[tab values] - sets the tabs to the values given.
@Tag[codeword] -  marks cross-reference points.
@Theorem[text] - adds the prefix text "Theorem" and then prints
        the current theorem number before the text.
@TitleBox[text] - positions text in the area used for technical report titles.
@TitlePage[text] - prints text on separate page, with items centered.
@U[phrase] - underlines non-blank characters.
@UN[phrase] - underlines  alpha-numberics (but not punctuation or spaces).
@UnNumbered[text] - defines a major section that is unnumbered and places it
        in the Table of Contents.
@Use[file type "file name"] - uses other database, bibliography, and auxiliary
        files than normal.
@UX[phrase] - underlines all characters.
@Value[codeword] - retrieves the value of the codeword as follows:

    Date       produces the current date in the format given by the style
                 command.  You specify the format by giving the special date of
                 "8 March 1952." For example:
                    If @Style[Date="8 March 1952"]
                    then @value[Date] = 20 July 1982
                    If @Style[Date="08/03/52"]
                    then @value[Date] = 20/07/82
                    If @style[date="03/08/52"]
                    then @value[Date] = 07/20/82
                    If @style[date="Eighth of March, Nineteen Fifty-two"]
                    then @value[Date] = Twentieth of July, Nineteen Eight-two

    Day        the day number in the current month, e.g. "7".
    Month      the full name of the current month, e.g. "August".
    Year       the current year, e.g. "1978".
    Weekday    the name of the current week day, e.g. "Monday".
    Time       the time, in 24-hour notation, to the nearest minute, when the
                 current SCRIBE run began; e.g. "02:26".
    TimeStamp  the date and time of processing.
    Page       the current page number.
    ScribeVersion   the version of the current SCRIBE.
    SectionTitle    title of the chapter, section, subsection, or whatever
                      is appropriate.
    SectionNumber   number of the chapter, section, subsection, or whatever
                      is appropriate.
    SiteName   the name of the site.
    SourceFile the particular place in the manuscript file or the
                 @included subfile that scribe is processing.
    UserName   the name of the user scribing the source file.

@W[phrase] - makes all blanks in the phrase significant, i.e., everything
        within the brackets is treated as a single word.