7.4

Expand or Collapse Command Groups 207
Enter Commands in the Editor 207
Use Command and Variable Name Completion 208
Dynamic Images 209
PlanetPress Talk Expressions for Dynamic Images that Reference Image Resources 209
PlanetPress Talk Expressions for Dynamic Images that Reference External Images 209
Physical Location of Dynamic Images 210
Host-Based or Printer-Based Document Execution 210
Image Format 211
Summary of Execution Environments 211
Examples of PlanetPress Talk Expressions that Resolve to Pathnames 212
Image Name and Pathname Resolution in Dynamic Images 213
Custom Data Selections 213
PlanetPress Talk Before and After 213
Creating and using Runpages 214
Convert an Object to PlanetPress Talk 215
PlanetPress Talk Basics 217
Assumed Knowledge 217
PlanetPress Talk 217
PlanetPress Talk Terminology 219
The Elements of PlanetPress Talk 219
PlanetPress Talk Syntax 220
Data Types 222
Variables 224
Create a Global Variable 225
View or Edit a Global Variable 226
Delete a Global Variable 226
System Variables with Local Scope 228
System Variables with Global Scope 228
System Objects with Global Scope 229
Current System Object 229
Runpage 232
Using Foreign Language Text with PPtalk 232
Learning PlanetPress Talk 236
Integrate PlanetPress Talk into Documents 237
Define and Assign Values to Variables 237
Select Data 238
Use Functions as Arguments 238
Debug Scripts 238
Tips and Tricks 238
Code Samples 239
Print a variable number of copies of a page based on a value in the datastream 239
Store two lines of input data on one line of the data page 240
Print a line of text on odd-numbered pages 241
Determine the proper page to print based on the width of the data in the data page 241
Language Reference 243
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