PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

Moving Between TFORM and T-TEXT
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TFORM to T-TEXT
Translation Overview
The input to TFORMCVT is a syntactically valid T-FORM file.
TFORMCVT does not issue warnings or T-TEXT syntax errors. An invalid
escape in the input file may be ignored or cause TFORMCVT to go into
DEBUG. This should not be a problem if the T-TEXT file is created using
the T-TEXT product.
TFORM is able to recognize two features that are not common in
standalone TFORM but are used by TFORMCVT when it is converting
T-TEXT files to TFORM edit files. One of these features is the
metacharacter \%. To TFORM, this metacharacter represents a hanging
indent that TFORMCVT encountered while working through a T-TEXT file.
Using the metacharacter saves the hanging indent in the converted edit file
so that no information is lost in any subsequent conversion back to T-TEXT.
The other feature is the RULER command. RULER exists as a command in
T-TEXT and exists in TFORM as a feature used primarily by TFORMCVT
during conversion of T-TEXT to TFORM files. The syntax of the RULER
command is RULER int int; the two integers represents new values for the
left and right margins, respectively. Standalone TFORM users are
encouraged to use the STYLE command instead of the RULER command.
The STYLE command does the same things with better results; RULER
exists primarily to aid accurate file conversion by TFORMCVT.
The output is a valid TFORM file. For consistent results, you should store
the options to your default values explicitly in the input file using SF15 in
the T-TEXT Create or Edit Document Menu.
Because joining is ON by default in T-TEXT but not in TFORM, each output
file contains “SET JOIN ON” at the beginning of the TFORM output file. If
the document is making a return trip (the first line of the file contains “SET
JOIN ON”), TFORMCVT does not put “SET JOIN ON” at the beginning of
the file.