PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

Overview of TFORM Capabilities
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Paragraph Indentation
Suppose you want to indent the first line in every paragraph five characters.
You do this with the STYLE PARAGRAPHS INDENT command:
\STYLE PARAGRAPHS INDENT 5
If you don’t give a unit of measurement, TFORM assumes you mean
characters.
You can increase or decrease the existing amount of indentation by typing
an explicit + or - sign with your numerical value:
\STYLE PARAGRAPHS INDENT +2
\STYLE PARAGRAPHS INDENT -2
Widow and Orphan Protection
A “widow”appears in your text when the last line of a paragraph is broken
off because of lack of space; it is then carried over to the next page. An
“orphan”appears when the first line of a paragraph appears alone at the
bottom of a page while the rest of the paragraph is carried over to the next
one. For protection against these fragments, you can use the STYLE
PARAGRAPHS BOTTOM or STYLE PARAGRAPHS TOP commands.
This command tells TFORM that the bottom three lines, for example, of a
paragraph must be kept together on the same page:
\STYLE PARAGRAPHS BOTTOM 3
If there isn’t enough room for that many lines on the current page, TFORM
inserts a page break before the paragraph and puts those lines at the top of
the next page. Even if you aren’t using this command, the default is two
lines; TFORM won’t ever break off a single line.