Sintral
- Sintral is a machine language developed by Stoll.
 - The text-based file contains all the relevant knitting specifications as function.
 

I. Structure:
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                       Program structure  | 
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40 START  | 
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II. Knitting instructions:
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                       Sintral command  | Meaning  | 
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<<  | Carriage direction to the left  | 
>>  | Carriage direction to the right  | 
<>  | any carriage direction  | 
S: ...-...;  | Knitting specification  | 
*+.ABEGHIKLMOPQTWYZ  | Jacquard symbols for single needle selection  | 
N  | Symbols written after N are not selected, but all other symbols Example: S: A - NA ;  | 
%.  | Symbols written after the % move needles to the tuck position, Example: S: A%Y – 0;  | 
0  | All needle do not knit  | 
-  | Break between front and rear system  | 
/  | Break between the systems  | 
;  | End of a knitting specification  | 
<1->  | Decrease Jacquard  | 
<A>  | Releases the Jacquard selection in the color field A  | 
Y:...;  | Yarn Carriers  | 
S1 .... S6  | Knitting system 1 to knitting system 6  | 
U^S  | Transfer to rear  | 
UVS  | Transfer to Front  | 
UXS  | Transfer to the rear and to the front  | 
MCWSn-m  | Carriage path from needle n to m  | 
RS  | Cycle Counters  | 
FBEG  | Beginning of the function  | 
FEND  | Function end  | 
SBEG  | Start of stroke processing.  | 
SEND  | End of stroke processing.  | 
JA1 .....8  | Jacquard1 .... 8  | 
#  | Counters  | 
IF  | IF-decisions  | 
IFN  | If not...  |