PS TEXT FORMAT Reference Manual

Introduction to TFORM
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Keyword NOW
NOW specifies that the footer is to appear on the current page. If you
omit it, TFORM waits until the start of the next page to begin using the
specified footer. TFORM considers the start of a page to be the first text
it sees after reaching a page boundary.
You can use the keyword NOW with any of the options described here.
Note Certain commands, such as SPACE and TITLE, produce text that is, TFORM sees a SPACE
or TITLE command as text on a page. So, for example, if there were a SPACE command
between a NEW command and a FOOTER command, the specified footer wouldn’t appear
until the following page unless the FOOTER command contained the keyword NOW.
Footers specified at the beginning of the file or before the start of the first
page take effect immediately.
Tips
A FOOTER command with no modifier (FIRST/ODD/EVEN) applies
to all pages.
If you want a footer to display the page number, put the number
symbol (#) in the appropriate field of title . (You can change the page-
number symbol to another character with the DEFINE TITLE
PAGENUMBER command if you wish.)
If you want the footer to start adding the page numbers beginning at a
number other than 1, you can combine the PAGE and FOOTER
commands; for example
\PAGE 53
\FOOTER NOW ALL ODD "| | page #"
\FOOTER EVEN "page # | |"
The PAGE command sets the page counter. TFORM notes it and
continues to increment from the value you specify. The FOOTER
command picks up the page number from the TFORM page counter.