.fg 5 .c;ABSTRACT .s.c;Bonner Lab Runoff (RNO) .p Bonner Lab Runoff is a text formatter that, when used with your favorite editor, makes a complete word processor. Its syntax is almost a complete emulation of DSR (Digital Standard Runoff) and it is very compatible with previous versions of Runoff. The document and help file for this version can also be used for DSR. The intent of this program is to support complete scientific word processing to produce publication quality output. It has been used to produce thesis, progress reports, and scientific papers here at Rice University. .p This version allows complete control of any special printer available via user definable escape sequences. In addition a macro facility allows text or sequences of commands to be abbreviated to a single label. If the printer has the correct features, then variable spacing,subscripting, superscripting, and equation formatting are possible. By properly defining escape sequences the user can support different printers in a transparent fashion. In other words the same input text will print in identical fashion on different printers with different control codes and escape sequences. .p Table of contents, indexing and sub-indexing are all supported. A variety of LAYOUT and STYLE commands can completely change the look of the pages. Table layout is simplified by right justified and 'decimal' justified tabs. Permanent margins that apply to the page headers are available. These simplify the setting of header and text margins. .p All special characters are redefinable. The user can define new commands, and text macros. By defining commands you can make this program resemble other text formatters, or other versions of RUNOFF. You may define numeric symbols to facilitate constructing lists of arbitrary items. These allow page and section references. A 2 pass option allows forward references to symbols defined later in the text. .p This program runs under VMS-native mode, RSX, IAS, RT11, TSX, P/OS, and RSTS. It occupies a minimum of 30 to 37 kbytes depending on the operating system. Complete documentation, help files, and test files are supplied with the program for all operating systems.