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- This is a sample header file. Normally, of course, you don't fill a PXL.HDR
- file with extra blank lines and all manner of uninstructive commentary.
- Nevertheless, this is a working header file. Change its name to PXL.HDR,
- and the commands below will do their job. Try it and see. All this is
- fully explained in the DOC file.
-
- {.H2C Printed: .Pt, .Pd} <- Time & Date of printout in center of 2nd line
-
- {.H1L File name: .Fn} {.H1R Written: .Ft on .Fd} <-Note: 2 commands can
- be on the same line. Note also that the order of the commands need not
- match the order of the lines.
-
- {.H2L CopiedRight .Id} <--Ornaments for line 2 of page 1. Your ID
- {.H2R Reg. Penna. Dept. Agr.} will be in it if you've made a PXL.ID file.
-
- {.H3L Ms. Patricia Pending} <--More ornaments for page 1.
- {.H3R Not kosher for Passover}
-
- {.H2N} {.H3N} <--These will cancel the line 2 & line 3 ornaments above,
- but only for pages after 1. First spec for a given segment
- is used in first page. 2nd spec for the segment won't be
- used until 2nd page. Subsequent specs in PXL.HDR will wipe
- out previous ones for page 2 ff. Thus:
-
- {.H1R Yoo hoo!} <--This changes the right side (only) of the first line but,
- again, only for pages after the first. Unless you delete the
- NEXT command, however, you'll never see this one, because:
-
- {.H1R Page #} <--This changes the right side of the 1st line again. It
- won't do anything to the first page, but it will intercept
- "Yoo hoo!" and keep it off the later pages.
-
- Notice that in a PXL.HDR file everything NOT in braces is a comment. You
- can have things in {braces}, too so long as they don't start with the
- .H symbol right after the opening brace. You'll notice that I have to
- pussyfoot in order to avoid actually putting a header instruction into
- this paragraph by mistake.
-
- It is not necessary for the instructions to be at the left. {.HA} here,
- makes PXL reverse left and right segments of each header lines on alter-
- nate pages. You would use this if you're going to print on both sides
- of the page.
-
- Here's a stinker: {. HPL22} as long as the extra space is in it, it won't
- do anything, but if you delete that space, this command will set PXL
- printing 22 lines per page. HPL makes no distinction between "1st" and
- "subsequent" pages. If you put more than one HPL command in PXL.HDR,
- only the last one will have effect. In the body of the text, of course,
- an HPL would take effect whenever it's found and stay until another is
- found.