Xerox 4450, 4650 manual Text positioning, Next Horizontal BOX `text `text

FORMS DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE

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 (for example, ©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.

Default If direction and alignment are not specified, the defaults are HORIZONTAL and CENTER. The default for units is DOTS.

Considerations A box with matching coordinate values must be defined before the TEXT IN BOX command can reference it. Thus, the statement allows nine options for the position in a box where the text is to be placed.

Reference Refer to the position parameters and to the ªCommand examplesº appendix for illustrations regarding text positioning.

Figure 2-2.Text positioning

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Note that except for CENTER, two keywords are required. If a location is not specified, the default is to place text in the center of the box. If the selected font causes the text to overflow the box or overflow the page, the system prints the form as specified and generates a message indicating the maximum size font, in points, that will fit in the allotted space.

Adjacent boxes The BOX position is specified by the coordinates of the upper left corner of the box in which the text string is to be placed. If text is to be placed in an adjacent box (either vertically or horizontally adjacent), this can be specified by an IN NEXT BOX parameter, in the following format:

IN NEXT HORIZONTAL BOX `text' `text' ...;

Adjacent boxes must have a common side. The keywords IN NEXT HORIZONTAL BOX specify the next horizontal box to the right of the current box. The keywords IN NEXT VERTICAL BOX specify the box beneath the current box. These adjacent boxes are shown in figure 2-3. The default is HORIZONTAL.

Figure 2-3.Adjacent boxes

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