PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

Introduction to TFORM
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The following paragraphs describe the different options of the BEGIN LIST,
END LIST, and ITEM commands of the LIST macro package.
BEGIN LIST
The BEGIN LIST command defines the ordering format of the list and
optionally assigns a name to the list for documentation convenience.
(When you have numerous lists, and especially when lists are nested,
names can be helpful in keeping track of individual lists). If you
include a list name, it must conform to the standard rules for variable
names and must not be any of the other words that can follow BEGIN
LIST (BULLET or ROMAN, for example). You do not need to include
the list name in the END LIST command, but it can help you to start
and end the various lists correctly. TFORM issues an error message
when the list names in corresponding BEGIN LIST and END LIST
commands do not match (perhaps due to a typographical error or an
incorrect list name in one of the two commands).
The BEGIN LIST command can also specify options that define the
structure of list items. These different options are described in the
following paragraphs.