SM

Edition 2.2.1, August 1992

• Introduction
• Description of SM
• A simple plot
• Facilities within the Command Interpreter
• String Variables
• Command History
• Changing Key-Bindings
• Talking to the Operating System
• Macros
• DO and FOREACH loops, and IF statements
• The Help Command
• Saving and Restoring a Session
• Vectors and Arithmetic
• Drawing Labels and SM's TeX Emulation
  • An Introduction to TeX
  • Available Fonts
  • SM's TeX Control Sequences
  • SM's Extensions to TeX
  • Caveats and Cautions when using TeX
  • How to Stop the Device using its Fonts
  • Old-style Labels
• Getting Hardcopies of Plots
• Overloading Keywords
• Examples of Useful Macros
• More Examples of Macros
• What Quotes What When
• Reserved Keywords
• Glossary of Terms used in this Manual
• Command Reference
• The Command Interpreter
  • Token Generation
  • Peculiarities of the Grammar
  • The Macro Processor
  • The DO, FOREACH, and IF commands
  • Examples
• The Stdgraph Graphics Kernel
  • The Graphcap File
  • Stdgraph's Binary Encoder
  • Examples of Graphcap Entries
  • Using Cursors with Graphcap
  • Using Colours with Graphcap
  • Writing a New Graphcap Entry
  • Support for Raster Devices
  • Compiling Graphcap
  • Index to Graphcap Capabilities
• Calling SM from Programmes
• The SM Grammar
• Two-Dimensional Graphics
  • Filecap
• Termcap -- A Terminal Database
• New Devices and New Machines
  • Adding New Devices
  • Porting to New Machines
• The System Macro Libraries
• Tips for Mongo Users
  • Differences from Mongo
  • The READ OLD command
  • The compatibility macro
• SM's Fonts
• General Index
• Command Index