TGAL Manual

POFF Command

TGAL Commands

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POFF Command Use the POFF command to establish the print offset (the left margin). With this

command, you specify the number of spaces to be used for the left margin. TGAL

assumes that the first print position is the leftmost position. The POFF command

determines the margin for an entire page.

The syntax of the POFF command is:

POFF

number

is the number of spaces for the left margin. This can be any number between

0 and 65.

Considerations

The POFF command provides a left margin for both even-numbered and odd-

numbered pages. The ALT command provides additional spaces only for the

odd-numbered pages.

You cannot change the left margin within a page. A new specification for the

POFF command begins on the following page.

Example

This example shows using the POFF command to indent the left margin for each page

of an entire document. If you enter:

\POFF 15

TGAL produces:

INTRODUCTION

11 August 1984

SECTION 1

This report is designed to explain and to describe the progress

achieved in stress management using mice as the guinea pigs.

This research began in an attempt to develop a program that can

be used on the corporate level to teach employees to manage

stress. The questions the research team set out to answer were:

o When does a crowd become unbearable?

Tests were designed to determine the maximum density of mice

possible before the mice started behaving strangely.

o How much private space is necessary?

Several mice houses were built of varying sizes and with

varying number of rooms.

POFF 15