IBM AS/400 Appendix B. Rotation, Format, and Shading Pattern in Box

Appendix B. Rotation, Format, and Shading Pattern in Box
Format, Text Placement and Rotation
You can specify the rotation of an overlay or a page, and the text position in a box
element.
On the Define Box Detail display, you can specify the format, the text placement
and the rotation in the Format prompt, in the Text placement prompt and in the
Degree of rotation prompt respectively.
Format You can specify the following values in the
Format prompt.
1 Horizontal
2 Vertical
3Vertical, right to left
Note: The value 3 can be specified only when Y is specified for the
user-specified DBCS data prompt on the Create Source Overlay File
display or the Create PFD Definition File display and the OS/400 system
is double byte capable.
Text PlacementYou can specify the following values in the
Horizontal prompt and the Vertical
prompt when the format is horizontal.
 Horizontal prompt
1 Left
2 Center
3 Right
4 Balance
 Vertical prompt
1 Top
2 Center
3 Bottom
You can specify the following values in the Horizontal prompt and the Vertical
prompt when the format is vertical or vertical right to left.
 Horizontal prompt
1 Left
2 Center
3 Right
 Vertical prompt
1 Top
2 Center
3 Bottom
4 Balance
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