7.5

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Margin (procedure)

Offsets text within a series of commands, relative to the original top left position of the object. Margin also sets the horizontal

position to be used when crlf commands are encountered. All text-rendering functions that make use of margins use this set-

ting.

Syntax

margin( x, y )

Arguments

x, y

Measure values representing the horizontal/vertical position, in inches, of the starting point for the text within an object.

Code Sample Example

This example displays shadowed text by repeating the same text commands twice, using styles of different colours and

slightly offsetting the margin.

Example

margin(1,1) %Set margins to ( 1,1 )

setstyle(&blackfont) %Blackfont must already exist

show('This is shadowed text')

margin(.98,.98) %Offset margins slightly

setstyle(&bluefont) %Bluefont must already exist

show('This is shadowed text')

Mid (function)

Extracts a specified number of characters from a string, starting at a specific position.

Syntax

mid( string, start, length ) string value

Arguments

string

String value from which to extract characters.

start

Integer value specifying where the first character to extract is located.

length

Integer value specifying how many characters to extract, starting from number onwards.