PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

TFORMCVT: Converting From TGAL to TFORM
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Tips
TFORMCVT ignores a trigger character preceding the TODAY option.
The first occurrence of the TODAY option causes TFORMCVT to
precede the TFORM command with a call to the macro TODAY (if the
TODAY macro has not been invoked previously). This is done to
initialize the system variable SYS_DATE.
In TGAL, footers are stacked; that is, if the fifth FOOT command (for
example) contains no text, TGAL uses the text specified in the fourth
FOOT command. If the sixth FOOT command also has no text, TGAL
recalls the text from the third command, and so on. TFORM does not
stack footers and TFORMCVT provides no substitution for this TGAL
feature.
If a trigger character occurs in the text string, it appears as four triggers
in the TFORM string to ensure that TFORM accepts the character
properly.