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Archive-name: auto/comp.human-factors/Smith-Mosier-Guidelines-available-via-anonymous-ftp

The text of MITRE's "Guidelines for Designing User Interface Software"
by Smith and Mosier (1986) is available via anonymous ftp in pub/hci at:
	ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu (128.146.8.52)
There are several forms of the file for you to copy:
	guidelines        the marked-up text    (790069 bytes)
	guidelines.Z      the above, compressed (286757 bytes)
	guidelines.Z.uu   the above, uuencoded  (395119 bytes)
To work with the file, you may need uudecode and/or uncompress.

Because the guidelines were produced with U.S. government funds,
the text does not have any copyright.
A version of this file, along with indexing information,
is used as the data for NaviText SAM,
a PC-based hypertext system for user interface design and evaluation.

With some prompting, I might be willing to prepare other
standards documents for ftp access, such as versions of
MIL-STD-1472C and the more recent MIL-STD-1472D.

All units in the text begin with a % delimiter.
% delimiters are followed by a tag, a quoted title, and an
optional count of following subunits of the next lower precedence.
This count may go down to the level of number of lines in a paragraph.

Titles may have hidden text associated with them.
This is delimited by a tilde (NaviText SAM does not print text after ~).
You can use or trim out such text, up to the next double-quote.
NaviText SAM optionally uses this text for searches.

Here are the hierarchical tags for units:
%b	book (the title of the report)
	%s	section (there are 6 titles of sections)
		%a	area (there are 70 titles of functional areas)
			%g	guidelines (944 guideline numbers and titles)
%%	break between major sections of text
	this is used in the introductory section to delimit
	  GLOSSARY
	  REFERENCES
		references are stored as one per paragraph
		the titles of references match the lines in guideline refs
		the ref titles may be followed by the names of citing guidelines
%p	paragraph (text that follows and is subordinate to any of the above)
	The optional titles are usually part of a guideline:
	  Comment
	  Exception
	  Example
		text bounded by vertical bars is unfilled
	  See also
		guideline numbers of x-refs are all on the next line
	  Reference
		references follow, one per line
		these match the paragraph titles in the references section

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