Xerox 4450 - Manual (Page 35)

FORMS DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE
TEXT
Two methods are available for specifying the text that is to be
placed on forms. The TEXT AT command places the text at a
specified location anywhere on the form; the TEXT IN BOX
command places text inside a box.
TEXT AT
Allows you to print text in specific locations.
Syntax direction TEXT SPACED d units PER LINE ALIGNED alignment
USING FONT n AT y units x units ‘text’ ‘text’ ...;
Parameter options direction
HORIZONTAL
VERTICAL
d
Amount of vertical space occupied by a line of text. All
specifications except lpi are actual line height measurements.
An lpi value specifies line height in terms of lines per inch.
The number must be positive and may have two decimal
places for all units except DOTS. The default unit is DOTS.
units
Units of linear measurement, expressed as inches (IN),
centimeters (CM), DOTS, XDOTS, POINTS (PTS), or lines per
inch (LPI). If units are not specified, the measurement is in
grid units.
alignment
LEFT
RIGHT
CENTER
TOP
BOTTOM
n
Index number of the font to be used. If omitted, the system
uses the last font index specified in a TEXT command. If the
font was omitted in all previous TEXT commands, the system
uses the first font specified in the FONT command.
y
Coordinate on the y axis where the text origin is to be
located.
x
Coordinate on the x axis where the text origin is to be
located.
text
Text characters that are printed at the specified location.
Multiple text strings can be specified by enclosing each text
string in single quotation marks. Separate each text string
with one or more spaces. (A string is a series of characters.)
Each string is printed as one physical line of text. Text strings
enclosed by single quotes (such as 'abcde') can be broken
and continued onto the next input record; the FDL compiler
skips all embedded spaces until it finds the first character of
the next record.
XEROX 4050/4090/4450/4650 LPS FORMS CREATION GUIDE 2-13