PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

Overview of TFORM Capabilities
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Unless you explicitly indicate a direction of indentation, TFORM assumes
you mean LEFT. If you want to indent from the right or on both sides, use
INDENT RIGHT or INDENT BOTH and the number of characters. Unless
you explicitly indicate a unit of measurement, TFORM assumes you mean
characters.
To indent some number of lines—say, five—three characters each, type:
\INDENT 5 3
You could also tell TFORM to indent all following lines three characters
each until it sees a blank line, a command line, or until you turn indenting
off. The forms of the INDENT command that you use in these cases are,
respectively:
\INDENT BLANK 3
\INDENT COMMAND 3
\INDENT ON 3
\INDENT OFF
Some things to remember about indentation:
You can increase or decrease the current indentation by using an
explicit + or - sign when specifying the indentation amount. A + sign
causes further indentation inward; a - sign causes indentation outward.
If this causes the indentation to become less than zero, you get negative
indenting—toward the edge of the form.
If line joining or justifying is in effect when you tell TFORM to indent,
TFORM joins or justifies the appropriate number of lines at the
indented line length.