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Setting options

 
tex2html_wrap_inline33790 tex2html_wrap_inline33790 Syntax

  1. BD>option : [-]Argument1 [,[-]Argument2] [, tex2html_wrap_inline34402 ] ([N1, N2, tex2html_wrap_inline34402 ]) tex2html_wrap_inline33712

  2. BD>option : [-]Argument1 [,[-]Argument2] [, tex2html_wrap_inline34402 ] tex2html_wrap_inline33712

where Argument1, Argument2, tex2html_wrap_inline34402 are arguments of the form discussed below; and where N1, tex2html_wrap_inline40634 , is a list of names of elements and bases in parenthesis and separated by commas.

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The first form of the syntax for the OPTION:  command is used to set a number of ouput options to on or off, depending on whether the option is prefaced by a minus sign (to switch off) or not. All options are off by default: Options generally govern the type and quantity of output given by the program, so that the default is minimal output.

The list of names of elements and bases N1, N2, tex2html_wrap_inline34402 , defines a collection of elements to which output is to be restricted. Output is, in any case, only available for the elements in the collection being adjusted. See §6.2 for details of specifying collections for the definition part. The second form of the syntax gives output for all elements in the collection being adjusted.

Both the output options and the list of elements to which output is to be restricted remain in force until redefined by subsequent OPTION:  commands. The SHOW:  command, whose syntax is identical, can be used to specify one-off output options and element restrictions, but independently of the settings specified by OPTION:  commands.

A list of possible options is available by issuing the LOOK:  command with argument options .



David Wooff
Wed Oct 21 15:14:31 BST 1998