Conference vaxuum::document_ft

498.0. "Modifying copyright notice for local doctypes?" by COOKIE::JOHNSTON () Thu Jun 11 1987 21:34

I need several versions of the copyright notice, each suitable for a
particular kind of documentation (unpublished specs, software docs, 
hardware docs, etc.). 

Notes 454.1 and 454.2 explain more or less how to make a change "across
the board"; but I need info on how to include a specific copyright notice 
for a specific local doctype, per above.

Under BL7, I did this by copying all the soft.spec defs into the new .dtp
file rather than use an \include statement.  For BL8 (and future versions),
I'd rather use the \include statement, if possible.

I'm trying the "old" method right now, and I'm getting useless TeX errors,
so I'm unable to even duplicate what I did under BL7.

While I'm at it...WISHLIST: add a copyright_notice parameter that can be
modified, and/or provide DEC-internal tags for the appropriate notices.

Your help is appreciated,

Rose

    
    The copyright notice text for a local doctype should be in the
    local DESIGN file, where they will override any local system
    defaults in DOC$LOCAL_ELEMENTS. \include would give you useless
    TeX errors because it's supposed to be \input ?

RE: .1

\include is a typo; I meant \input and I used \input in the .DESIGN file.

I had tried including the new copyright notice directly into the DESIGN file, 
but was getting errors.  After some agonizing, I finally figured out that 
I had unmatched curly braces.

Problem is fixed now. 

Thanx.

Rose