PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

Notation Conventions
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Notation Meaning
Punctuation Parentheses, commas, semicolons, and other symbols not described
above must be entered precisely as shown. Quotation marks around any
symbol indicate that it is not a syntax descriptor but a required character,
and you must enter it as shown.
char is a single character that can be entered from the terminal keyboard.
exp is an expression of numeric, character, or Boolean type. It may be a
single digit or character, or a complex construct of operators and
operands. Expressions are described in Section 5.
int is an integer.
num is a number, either an integer or combination of an integer and a fraction
(either of which may be zero) separated by a decimal point.
string is one or more characters enclosed in quotation marks.
text is any combination of one or more characters (no quotation marks
necessary).
title is a one-, two-, or three-field entity, depending on how you enter it. Its
form is
“ [ text ] [ | [ text ] [ | [ text ] ] ] ”
Vertical bars ( | ) are used as the field delimiters, which divide the title into
left, center, and right fields. TFORM left-justifies any field to the left of the
first delimiter (or if you omit both delimiters), centers any field positioned
between the vertical bars, and right-justifies any field to the right of the
second delimiter. Fields may be empty or spaced-filled, and you can use
any combination of the one, two, or three fields. Titles are enclosed in
quotation marks.
units is one of CHARS, CM, DECIPOINTS, INCHES, LINES, MM, PICAS, or
POINTS. TFORM stores all units in the form of decipoints, converting
CHARS and LINES to decipoints at command execution time. Any unit
name may be abbreviated to its first two characters. A table presenting
the conversion factors is presented in Section 1.