PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

Introduction to TFORM

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BEGIN LIST ROMAN

BEGIN LIST ROMAN and BEGIN LIST ROMAN UPPER have the

same effect TFORM puts a 7-character label in front of each item,

indenting the body of the item accordingly. The labels are of the

form “I.”, “II.”, “III.”, and so on (not including quotation marks).

Note that the Roman numerals expand to the left in the label area,

remaining fixed in relation to the text that follows.

BEGIN LIST ROMAN LOWER defines a list of the same form, but

with lowercase Roman numerals.

The widest number that can be expressed in a 7-character space is

XVII (17). For wider numbers, TFORM pushes the first line of text

an appropriate number of spaces to the right, while continuing to

indent the remainder of the item 7 spaces. You can use the WIDTH

option to get a Roman-numeral list with wider labels.

BEGIN LIST STYLE

exp

creates a descriptive list, one in which the

value of an expression determines the appearance of the label. The

string expression defines the form of the label that precedes each

item. Two predefined system variables—SYS_LNUM and

SYS_LDESC—are available for use in descriptive lists.

1. TFORM sets the value of SYS_LNUM to zero when it encounters

a BEGIN LIST STYLE command containing this variable, then

increments the variable by 1 each time it sees an ITEM command.

A practical example of using this variable is to have TFORM take

care of customized numbering of list items.