PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

Overview of TFORM Capabilities
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The following paragraphs attempt only a brief survey of the capabilities of
TFORM. They take a closer look at the core features than at the advanced.
For a full description of the commands touched on here, refer to Section 3.
Basic Formatting
With TFORM
The first thing you need to learn is how to control the basic structure of
your page with TFORM. Figure 2-1 identifies the elements of page layout
that TFORM recognizes and allows you to affect. The paragraphs that
follow describe briefly how to:
Indicate form length and width
Set margins
Set up headers and footers
Join and justify text
Center text
Indent text
Leave blank space in text
Handle page breaks
Indicating Form Length
and Width
TFORM has no way of knowing what size paper you’re using unless you
tell it. If you don’t tell it, TFORM assumes that you’re using a standard
8-1/2 by 11-inch page. To specify a different form size, you use the STYLE
command. For example, if you have a 7 by 9-inch page, type the following
commands at the beginning of your input file:
\STYLE FORM WIDTH 7 INCHES
\STYLE FORM LENGTH 9 INCHES