ACD

1. Introduction

1.1 Command line syntax
1.2 ACD files
1.3 ACD language

2. Formal description of the ACD language

2.1 ACD file overview
2.2 The application definition

2.2.1 Application attributes

2.3 Ajax Data Types

2.3.1 Description of the data types
2.3.2 Parameter names

2.4 Attributes

2.4.1 Attributes
2.4.2 Calculated attributes
2.4.3 Attribute usage

2.5 Qualifiers

2.5.1 Naming scheme for qualifiers
2.5.2 Global qualifiers
2.5.3 Data type specific qualifiers
2.5.4 Multiple qualifiers
2.5.5 Numbering qualifiers

2.6 Operations

2.6.1 Arithmetic operations
2.6.2 Conditional operations
2.7 Variables
2.8 Sections
2.9 Environment variables

3. ACD utility programs

3.1 acdc
3.2 acdtrace
3.3 acdvalid
3.4 acdpretty
3.5 acdtable
3.6 acdlog

4. Command line syntax

4.1 Parameters and qualifiers.
4.2 Qualifier definition

5. Using an ACD file in a new EMBOSS program

5.1 Application Command Definitions

5.1.1 ACD files
5.1.2 Testing your ACD file

5.2 Application template
5.3 Makefile changes

6. Examples

6.1 Processing the ACD File
6.2 Testing ACD Files

7. Acknowledgements
Footnotes

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