PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

Introduction to TFORM
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BEGIN LIST ALPHABETIC
BEGIN LIST ALPHABETIC and BEGIN LIST ALPHABETIC
LOWER have the same effect They define an alphabetic list with
lowercase letters as labels. TFORM prints a label of the form “a. “
for the first list item, “b. “ for the next item, and so on (not
including quotation marks). TFORM indents each list item by 4
spaces.
BEGIN LIST ALPHABETIC UPPER produces an alphabetic list
with uppercase letters.
If an alphabetic list exceeds 26 items, TFORM labels the item after
“z” with “aa”; the next item is “ab,” and so on (in an uppercase list,
“AA” follows “Z,” and so on). This labeling causes the first line of
text to be pushed one space to the right; TFORM still indents the
remainder of the item 4 spaces, however. If this is unacceptable (or
if you have more than 100 items in your list), you can use the
FORMAT keyword or the STYLE form of the BEGIN LIST
command with the WIDTH keyword to define a wider label.
BEGIN LIST BULLET
BEGIN LIST BULLET starts a bulleted list. TFORM begins each
item with a label of the form “• ” (not including the quotation
marks) and indents the list item 3 spaces.
If you don’t enter any list type option, TFORM builds a bulleted list
by default.
BEGIN LIST NUMERIC
BEGIN LIST NUMERIC defines a numbered list. TFORM prints a
label of the form “1. ” for the first item, “2. ” for the next, and so on
(not including quotation marks), indenting each item 5 spaces. For
numbers greater than 9, TFORM pushes the first line of text one
space to the right to make room for each 2-digit label, but continues
to indent the remainder of each item 4 spaces. If this is
unacceptable (or if your list contains 100 or more items), you can
use the FORMAT keyword or the STYLE form of the BEGIN LIST
command with the WIDTH option to define a wider label.