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Add index entries around each paragraph rather than depend on entries from beginning of node. Doing so ensures that index entries are less likely to be forgotten if text is cut and pasted, and are necessary anyway if the references are on a separate page. It seems that makeinfo is now (v. 4.8) only producing one index entry per node, so there is no longer any excuse not to. Use subheading instead of heading. The incorrect use of heading produced very large fonts in Info--as large as the main heading. (From Bill Wohler): MH-E never did appear in Emacs 21--MH-E versions 6 and 7 appeared *around* the time of these Emacs releases.

;;; forms-d2.el --- demo forms-mode -*- no-byte-compile: t -*-

;; Author: Johan Vromans <[e-mail]>
;; Created: 1989

;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.

;;; Commentary:

;; This sample forms exploit most of the features of forms mode.

;;; Code:

;; Set the name of the data file.
(setq forms-file "forms-d2.dat")

;; Use 'forms-enumerate' to set field names and number thereof.
(setq forms-number-of-fields
      (forms-enumerate
       '(arch-newsgroup			; 1
	 arch-volume			; 2
	 arch-issue			; and ...
	 arch-article			; ... so
	 arch-shortname			; ... ... on
	 arch-parts
	 arch-from
	 arch-longname
	 arch-keywords
	 arch-date
	 arch-remarks)))

;; The following functions are used by this form for layout purposes.
;;
(defun arch-tocol (target &optional fill)
  "Produces a string to skip to column TARGET.  Prepends newline if needed.
The optional FILL should be a character, used to fill to the column."
  (if (null fill)
      (setq fill ?\s))
  (if (< target (current-column))
      (concat "\n" (make-string target fill))
    (make-string (- target (current-column)) fill)))
;;
(defun arch-rj (target field &optional fill)
  "Produces a string to skip to column TARGET minus the width of field FIELD.
Prepends newline if needed.  The optional FILL should be a character,
used to fill to the column."
  (arch-tocol (- target (length (nth field forms-fields))) fill))

;; Record filters.
;;
(defun arch-new-record-filter (the-record)
  "Form a new record with some defaults."
  (aset the-record arch-from (user-full-name))
  (aset the-record arch-date (current-time-string))
  the-record				; return it
)
(setq forms-new-record-filter 'arch-new-record-filter)

;; The format list.
(setq forms-format-list
     (list
       "====== Public Domain Software Archive ======\n\n"
       arch-shortname
       " - "			arch-longname
       "\n\n"
       "Article: "		arch-newsgroup
       "/"			arch-article
       " "
       '(arch-tocol 40)
       "Issue: "		arch-issue
       " "
       '(arch-rj 73 10)
       "Date: "			arch-date
       "\n\n"
       "Submitted by: "		arch-from
       "\n"
       '(arch-tocol 79 ?-)
       "\n"
       "Keywords: "		arch-keywords
       "\n\n"
       "Parts: "		arch-parts
       "\n\n====== Remarks ======\n\n"
       arch-remarks
     ))

;; That's all, folks!

;;; arch-tag: 8e5d5dac-7abf-4722-ab5e-03eb749beaca
;;; forms-d2.el ends here