Announce FM 1.0
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``fm'' stands for ``formatting more''. It paginates, fills lines, hyphenates,
and justifies text files and displays them on screen a page at a time or
prints them on a PostScript printer. Formatting commands can be used that
are similar to those of TeX or those of the nroff -man macros. For linguists,
there is provision for trees and phonetic notation, with optional use of
unicode.
Features
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* optional format markup
* horizontal and vertical justification; English hyphenation
* corresponding screen display and PostScript printout
* no external files required (.fmconfig file optional),
self-contained font metrics, IPA font
* choice of formatting languages: none, pseudo-TeX, nroff-man macros
* trees, with easy to use indented input specification
* inverted, flattened, or discontinuous trees
* extended IPA phonetic notation
* all TeX standard diacritics for Roman fonts (except tie bars),
other diacritics too numerous to mention for IPA (including tie bars)
* unicode for screen display of diacritics, phonetics, trees
* unicode for input of diacritics and phonetic characters
* colored display and fontified printout of C-code
* footnotes at bottom of screen or page
* floating insertions
* automatic section, example, footnote numbering
* utility to generate TeX code for trees
* utility for translating unicode texts into an ascii
* easy GNU configure installation; no special libraries required
* user manual, tree manual, command reference, examples
License
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Public domain.
Availability
============
The source distribution is available by ftp from:
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/text/fm-1.0.tar.gz
Also, from my site:
ftp://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/pub/greg/fm-1.0.tar.gz
Latest is:
ftp://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/pub/greg/fm-1.0a.tar.gz
--
Greg Lee <greg _at_ ling.lll.hawaii.edu>
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