PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

Overview of TFORM Capabilities
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Sentence styling controls the number of spaces following the end of a
sentence. Paragraph styling involves the gap between paragraphs,
indentation of the first line of a paragraph, and protection from stranded
single words or lines at the beginning or end of a page.
Note For these STYLE commands to have much effect, you must turn on joining with SET JOIN
ON. Without joining, TFORM leaves your text basically as it finds it in your file.
Sentence Formatting
Perhaps you prefer one space following the end of each sentence in your
document. Simply type:
\STYLE SENTENCES 1
The values you can use with this command are 0, 1, and 2. TFORM
automatically adds two spaces if you just type STYLE SENTENCES.
If you want TFORM to use exactly the number of spaces you put after
sentences in the input file, type:
\STYLE SENTENCES VERBATIM
Gaps Between Paragraphs
When joining is on, TFORM treats any block of text between blank lines as a
paragraph. You can have more than one blank line between your
paragraphs, or you can have a gap of zero if you want to run paragraphs
together. You use the STYLE PARAGRAPHS command to control the
number of blank lines between paragraphs. If you want four blank lines
between paragraphs, for example, type:
\STYLE PARAGRAPHS GAP 4
TFORM makes sure that four blank lines follow each paragraph, despite the
number of blank lines that follow the paragraph in your file. If you don’t
specify any unit of measurement, TFORM assumes you mean lines.