Xerox 96MX manual Text in BOX command defaults, Possible text positions in box

FORMS DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE

This example prints the following text within the designated box:

FIRST

NATIONAL

TRUST

text Text characters that are to be printed at the specified location. Multiple text strings (a string is a series of characters) can be specified by enclosing each text string in single quotation marks. Separate each text string with one or more spaces. 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.

TEXT IN BOX command defaults

The defaults for the optional keywords in the TEXT IN BOX command are HORIZONTAL, DOTS, CENTER, and HORIZONTAL.

A box with matching coordinate values must be defined before 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, as shown in the following list and in figure 3-16.

1.TOP LEFT or LEFT TOP

2.TOP CENTER or CENTER TOP

3.TOP RIGHT or RIGHT TOP

4.LEFT CENTER or CENTER LEFT

5.CENTER CENTER (default) or CENTER

6.RIGHT CENTER or CENTER RIGHT

7.BOTTOM LEFT or LEFT BOTTOM

8.BOTTOM CENTER or CENTER BOTTOM

9.BOTTOM RIGHT or RIGHT BOTTOM.

Figure 3-16.Possible text positions in box

Note that except for CENTER, two keywords are required. If no location is specified, the default is to place text in the center of the box. If the font selected 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.

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