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Table Of Contents

other pagesin the document scale that same header to fit in the lower left corner ofeach page. Any modification you sub-

sequently make to the headeris automatically reflected throughout the document.

Syntax

$element

Arguments

element

String value specifying the name of the element you want to execute.

Examples

Example 1 illustrates basic usage of the syntax.

$my_square

$page1

$box5

Example 2 scales the $header element to one quarter of its original size, and rotates it 90 degrees.

scale( 0.25, 0.25 )

setangle( 90 )

$header

Example 3 creates a thumbnail of each of the first two pages and positions the thumbnails side-by-side.

scale( 0.10, 0.10 )

$page1

translate( 8.5, 0 )

$page2

Emulation, Data File, and Data Pages

ClearPage (procedure)

Clears the current data page and loads the next one. This command should only be used before reading the next page of data

from the input stream. It is strictly for use within a User-Define Emulation and generally follows DoForm (procedure).

Syntax

clearpage()

Argument

None

Example:

This example the default User-Defined Emulation that corresponds to a Line Printer data file.