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- Lesson 4 - Special Functions
- Steps for building a form:
- 1. Design your form on paper.
- 2. Enter text onto blank form (Lesson 1)
- 3. Add input fields to form (Lesson 2)
- 4. Add borders to your form (Lesson 3)
- 5. Add special printer control functions (Lesson 4)<
- You are here
- You should proceed through these lessons in order. If you make any mistakes
- just reload the form and begin editing again.
- Alternate Characters
- There are 26 alternate characters you can insert into your form that
- have special meaning when your form is executed. These characters are
- inserted by holding down the Alt key and pressing a letter of the
- alphabet. They are seen only when you are editing a form, never when
- you are executing. The functions that the special characters control
- take effect immediately following the character.
- Press PgDn
- Three of these special characters are reserved for placing information
- on your form:
- Character
- Function
- Symbol
- Alt-D
- Place current date on form
- Alt-F
- Place current form number on form
- Alt-T
- Place current time on form
- The 'Symbol' is what you see when you type the Alt-letter.
- Note: Date and time will only be as current as your computer clock.
- One of these special characters is reserved for writing two lines on
- top of each other (overstriking).
- Character
- Function
- Symbol
- Alt-O
- Cancel line feed after this line
- Example
- The last word in this sentence will be overstriked with '/': word
- There are 22 letters left. These are used for up to 22 different print
- functions such as switch to and from italics, boldface, elite, etc.
- Press PgDn
- You can define these characters any way you like (see Configuring Your
- Printer in the documentation). Currently the following defaults are
- used:
- Character
- Function
- Symbol
- Alt-B
- Boldface text
- Alt-C
- Compressed text
- Alt-E
- Elite text
- Alt-H
- Higher (superscript)
- Alt-I
- Italic text
- Alt-L
- Lower (subscript)
- Alt-P
- Pica text
- Alt-U
- Underlining
- Alt-X
- Expanded text
- The first time you insert one these characters in a line turns on that
- function. The second time turns it off. The third time back on, and so
- on. These functions take effect when you print.
- PLEASE DO NOT PRINT THIS SCREEN. THE SPECIAL CHARACTERS ABOVE WILL NOT
- PRINT CORRECTLY AND WILL LEAVE YOUR PRINTER IN AN UNKNOWN STATE.
- Press PgDn
- Using Special Characters
- These special characters are always inserted whenever you use them. Text
- from the cursor to the end of the line will be shifted one column to the
- right. This will distort your form if you have characters on the line
- which are supposed to line up with characters on other lines. However,
- when the form is executed, the special characters are not shown and the
- form will then look normal. (If you press Alt-F1, the editor will show
- how the form will look when executing it.)
- The following example will cause the word 'lazy' to be underlined during
- printing: Move the cursor to just above the first '^' and press Alt-U.
- Move the cursor to just above the second '^' and press Alt-U.
- The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
- Now press Alt-F1 to view without the special characters.
- End of Lesson 4
- TNow return to DOS and print the file TUTORIAL.DOC. Following the instructions
- 7to build your first working form!
-