LPTOPS 1L "07 May 1996" "Version 3.1.3" [section 6 of 12]

INITIALIZATION FILE

The initialization file can contain comments, empty lines, and option settings.

Comments go from percent to end-of-line, except that a percent prefixed by a backslash is reduced to a literal non-comment-starting percent.

Option settings must be complete on a single logical line, and can be used to supply site-dependent customizations. Usually, additional font family settings would be placed in the initialization file, because they require a long option value that is inconvenient to provide on the command line.

A long logical line can be written as multiple physical lines by breaking at a backslash-newline; those two characters are deleted when the line is joined to the next line. Line collapsing happens before comment stripping, so if a line with a comment is continued, all following continuation lines are part of the comment.

Here is a simple example. Notice the use of backslash-newline to wrap long lines, and that space between option names and values is permissible.

% /u/sy/beebe/tex/ndvi/lptops.ini,
% Wed Jun  2 22:30:23 1993
% Edit by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@sunrise>
% This is a sample lptops initialization file for local
% customization.
% [02-Jun-1993]

% define Bitstream Charter font family
-f  CharterBT-Regular, BCH, \
    CharterBT-Bold, BCHB,   \
    CharterBT-Italic, BCHI, \
    CharterBT-BoldItalic, BCHBI, \
    Courier, BCHT

% define Bitstream Courier font family
-f  Courier10PitchBT-Roman, BC,   \
    Courier10PitchBT-Bold, BCB,   \
    Courier10PitchBT-Italic, BCI, \
    Courier10PitchBT-BoldItalic, BCBI, \
    Courier10PitchBT-Roman, BCT

% define Adobe Utopia font family
-f  Utopia-Regular, U, \
    Utopia-Bold, UB,   \
    Utopia-Italic, UI, \
    Utopia-BoldItalic, UBI, \
    Courier, UT

% define URW Antiqua family (only Roman available)
-f =    URWAntiquaT-RegularCondensed, AntiqReg, \
        URWAntiquaT-RegularCondensed, AntiqReg, \
        URWAntiquaT-RegularCondensed, AntiqReg, \
        URWAntiquaT-RegularCondensed, AntiqReg, \
        Courier, UT

% define URW Grotesk family (only bold available)
-f =    URWGroteskT-Bold, GroteBo, \
        URWGroteskT-Bold, GroteBo, \
        URWGroteskT-Bold, GroteBo, \
        URWGroteskT-Bold, GroteBo, \
        Courier, UT

% define URW Nimbus Roman family (only Roman available)
-f =    NimbusRomanNo9L-Regular, NimbuRo, \
        NimbusRomanNo9L-Regular, NimbuRo, \
        NimbusRomanNo9L-Regular, NimbuRo, \
        NimbusRomanNo9L-Regular, NimbuRo, \
        Courier, UT

% define URW Nimbus Sans family (only Roman available)
-f =    NimbusSansL-Regular, NimbuSa, \
        NimbusSansL-Regular, NimbuSa, \
        NimbusSansL-Regular, NimbuSa, \
        NimbusSansL-Regular, NimbuSa, \
        Courier, UT

-f  Utopia-Regular      % change default font

-p  11bp                % change default point size

-reverse 0              % no page sorting needed