SM

Edition 2.3.2, August 1993

• 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
  • Abort
  • Angle
  • Apropos
  • Aspect
  • Arithmetic
  • Axis
  • Box
  • Chdir
  • Connect
  • Contour
  • Ctype
  • Cursor
  • Data
  • Define
  • Delete
  • Device
  • Do
  • Dot
  • Draw
  • Edit
  • Environment Variables
  • Erase
  • Errorbar
  • Expand
  • Fft
  • Foreach
  • Format
  • Grid
  • Help
  • Histogram
  • History
  • Identification
  • If
  • Image
  • Key
  • Label
  • Levels
  • Limits
  • Lines
  • List
  • Location
  • Logical
  • Ltype
  • Lweight
  • Macro
  • Meta
  • Minmax
  • Notation
  • Overload
  • Page
  • Points
  • Print
  • Prompt
  • Ptype
  • Putlabel
  • Quit
  • Range
  • Read
  • Relocate
  • Restore
  • Return
  • Save
  • Set
  • Shade
  • Show
  • Sort
  • Spline
  • Strings
  • Surface
  • Termtype
  • Ticksize
  • User
  • Verbose
  • Version
  • Viewpoint
  • Whatis
  • Window
  • Write
  • Xlabel
  • Ylabel
• Appendices
  • The Command Interpreter
    • Token Generation
    • Peculiarities of the Grammar
    • The Macro Processor
    • The DO, FOREACH, and IF commands
    • Examples of How SM Parses Input
  • The Stdgraph Graphics Kernel
  • The Graphcap File
  • Stdgraph's Binary Encoder
  • Examples of Graphcap Entries
  • Using Cursors with Graphcap
  • Using Colours with Graphcap
  • How to Modify a Graphcap Entry
  • Writing a New Graphcap Entry
  • Support for Raster Devices
  • Compiling Graphcap
  • Index to Graphcap Capabilities
  • Calling SM from Programmes
    • Introduction to Callable SM
    • Example of Calling SM Functions
    • Function Definitions: 1-D
    • Function Definitions: 2-D
    • Calling the SM interactive Parser from Programmes
    • Why do I have to call sm_alpha, sm_graphics, sm_gflush, and sm_redraw?
  • 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
  • Using SM to write Japanese
• General Index
• Command Index