PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

Introduction to TFORM
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How to Use CONTENTS
As shown in the preceding examples, you can enter any combination of
one, two, or three fields in your title and separate them by the title field
delimiter—a vertical bar (|), or any other character you define—to produce
left-justified, centered, or right-justified titles on the printed page. In the
specific case of a two-field title, with neither field centered (see the fourth
example above), TFORM fills the space between the left and right fields
with a predefined fill string, repeated as many times as needed to fill the
space. The default fill string is a space-period ( .) combination. For any
other arrangement of fields, TFORM fills the output line to the left and/or
right of the specified field(s) with blanks.
TFORM normally prints the table of contents at the end of the document,
but you can force printing of the table at any time by entering a
CONTENTS command without a title . TFORM prints all of the contents
lines that have been generated—by CONTENTS commands and/or LEVEL
commands—up to that point. These content lines won’t be repeated in any
subsequent table of contents. The next table of contents begins with the first
item recorded after the partial table was printed.
Unless you make style changes, the table of contents—whether printed on
demand by a CONTENTS command or printed automatically at the end of
the file—uses the same page format as the rest of the document.