Blue Book

1. publication Informal name for one of the four standard

references on the page-layout and graphics-control language

PostScript. The other three official guides are known as

the Green Book, the Red Book, and the White Book.

["PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook", Adobe Systems,

Addison-Wesley 1985, (ISBN 0-201-10179-3)].

2. publication Informal name for one of the three standard

references on Smalltalk. This book also has green and red

siblings.

["Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation", David

Robson, Addison-Wesley 1983, (ISBN 0-201-11371-63)].

3. publication Any of the 1988 standards issued by the

ITU-T's ninth plenary assembly. These include, among other

things, the X.400 electronic mail specification and the

Group 1 through 4 fax standards.

See also book titles.

[Jargon File]

(1995-10-12)