IBM AS/400 manual Text Placementprompts, Vertical, right to left

Field

Name

Description

Text

data

Specify

your

text

data

in

this

field. Text data can be

length. If

you

need

to

enter

or

update text data that is

bytes

in

length,

you

have

to

define

it

as

multiple

box

eleme

text

elements.

For

a

record

layout

of

the

printout format definition (PFD de

can

enter

a

variable

data

field

as

"&<field

name>.". You

ca

list

of fields and select one of

them

by

placingText

the cursor

data prompt

and

pressing

the

F4

key.

You

can

also

specify

reserved variable data in a record la

page

layout,

and

summary

data

in a page layout. See

Chapter 1

“Work

with

PFD

Definitions”

on

page 139

for more

information.

You

can

specify

two

or

more

lines

of text for text data

i

They

are formatted according to the valuesFormatspecifiedand

for

t

Text

placementprompts.

To

specify

multiple

lines

of

text,

you need

to

enclose

each

with

two

apostrophes

and one

or

more

blanks

between

two

apost

as

follows:

'ABC' 'DEF'

This

means

that

the

firstABC

andline theis

second DEFline.

is

To

specify

apostrophes

(')

in

multiple-line

text,

specify

two

for an apostrophe as follows:

'Tom''s cap'

'Jane''s car'

--->

Tom's cap

Jane's car

Format

Specifies

the

printing

direction

of

the

text. Specify one of

values:

Horizontal

Characters are printed from left to right.

Vertical

Characters are printed vertically from

top

to

bottom.

lines

of

text

are

printed

from

left

to

right.

Vertical, right to left

Characters are printed vertically from top to bottom. lines of text are printed from right to left, as th traditional way of formatting. This choice appears whe are using a DBCS file. This option does not appear wh the system is not DBCS capable.

See “Formatting Examples” on page 252 or Appendix B, “Rotation, Format, and Shading Pattern in Box” on page 421 for examples o formatting.

Notes:

1.Not all printers support the vertical format. You are not enter 2 (Vertical) or 3 (Vertical right to left) if the support the vertical format.

2. To

use

2=Vertical

or 3=Vertical

right to

left,

you shoul

the following:

Ÿ

If

your

printer

type

is

1,

you

can not use

these

f

Ÿ

If

your

printer

type

is

2

or

3,

you

must specify

f

ŸIf your printer type is one of the others, there ar restrictions.

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