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- TEST DOCUMENT TO DEMONSTRATE
- THE VIRTUES OF BIGFOOT 1.0
-
- Michael A. Covington
- 1984
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- BIGFOOT 1.0@note{MS-DOS version copyright 1983 Michael A.
- Covington. CP/M version copyright 1984 Michael A. Covington.
- Available from Athens Microcomputer Center, Athens, Georgia.} is
- a computer program that frees you from two of the limitations of
- Perfect Writer. In Perfect Writer,@note{A product of Perfect
- Software, Berkeley, California. The author of BIGFOOT has no
- affiliation with the authors or publishers of Perfect Writer.} no
- footnote can be more than 300 characters long, and the total set
- of footnotes cannot be larger than the Perfect Writer endspace,
- typically 5000 characters.
-
- BIGFOOT reformats Perfect Writer documents so that these
- restrictions do not apply. BIGFOOT works through the document,
- picks up all the passages markred @@NOTE(...),@note(Any of the
- standard Perfect Writer brackets or "fences" can be used to
- enclose the text of a footnote. Note that BIGFOOT always treats
- footnotes as endnotes, placing them at the end of the document.
- This, by the way, is a footnote too long for Perfect Writer to
- handle by itself, which is why this test document requires
- BIGFOOT.) replaces them by codes for superscript numbers, and
- places them in a numbered list at the end of the document or on a
- separate file.
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