Description of the tags

The tags are special commands that you can insert in the text of your Header, Message or Footer to print some special informations (Time,...) or format your fax.

Here is a description of the available tags

All the tags begin with the character '&'. The tags are case sensitive.
Tags displaying some information
&SNAME Prints the sender name as defined in the User settings dialog
&SPHONE Prints the sender phone or fax number as defined in the User settings dialog
&DNAME Prints the name of the destination person entered in the main screen of DBFax
&ID Prints the ID String defined in the user settings dialog
&VER Prints the version of DBFax
Tags changing the format of the text 
or the bitmaps
Those tags format the current text line. The last one on the line overrides the others
&< The text or bitmap is left justified
&- The text or bitmap is centered
&> The text or bitmap is right justified (not implemented)
&s Select the standard Font (overrides the Page Setting value)
&b Select the bold Font (overrides the Page Setting value)
&l Select the large Font (overrides the Page Setting value)
&1,&2,&3,&4,&5 Change the size of the characters or bitmaps in both horizontal and vertical directions. This overrides the setting in the Page Config dialog
&h1,&h2,&h3,&h4,&h5 Change the horizontal size of the characters or bitmaps. This is useful to maintain the aspect ratio of bitmaps
&v1,&v2,&v3,&v4,&v5 Change the vertical size of the characters or bitmaps. This is useful to maintain the aspect ratio of bitmaps
&r Prints a horizontal line
Tags used to insert bitmaps The bitmap will be displayed on a new line. All the size and justification formats also apply to bitmaps
&DOODLE.<number> Insert the corresponding doodle page. <number> ranges from 0 to 9. 0 corresponds to the page called 1 in doodle. 

Ex: 
&DOODLE.0 will print the first page of Doodle.

&BMP(Database,ResourceID) This tag is used to print a bitmap resource contained in any of the databases loaded in the Pilot. This is a good way of adding a company logo for example. You can create a database containing different bitmaps 

Ex : 
&BMP(Fax,8000) will print the DBFax logo (used in the default footer) 
&BMP(Fax,10000) will print the PalmPilot logo stored in the ROM of your pilot

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