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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.
-
- {.H2R Printed out: .Pt, .Pd} <- Time & Date of printout at right of 2nd line
-
- {.H1L This file is .Fn} {.H1R Written at .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 Pat. Pending .Id, Reg Penna Dept Ag.} <--An ornament with your ID in
- it if you've made a PXL.ID file.
-
- {.H2N} <--This will cancel the second line, but only for pages after 1, be
- because there's already a specification for line 2. 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. Thus:
-
- {.H1R Yoo hoo!} <--This changes the right side (only) of the first line
- but, again, only for pages after the first. Unless
- you wipe out 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 replace
- the previous H1R for pages after the first.
-
- 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 the header instruction
- into this file by mistake.
-
- Here's a stinker: {. HPL22} as long as the extra space is in it, it won't
- do anything, of course, but if you delete it, this command will set
- PXL printing 22 lines per page. HPL makes no distinction between "1st"
- & "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.