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.

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