InterForm Manual - System & Method

8=TABULATOR (Paragraph tabulation)
A "tabulator" performs formatting and horizontal movement of an interval of lines in the spool
date. Almost the same result can be obtained by using command type 9. Remap Window.
The line and position numbers to be entered are those appearing in the input, regardless of a
general margin or extra blank lines defined for the overlay.
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Seqnbr. Type
1 8 Tabulator
Input: Line ___ - ___
Position ___ - ___
Print: From left edge ______ Adjustment _ (U L C R N B +)
Font ____ F4=List
Condition: Position ___ - ___
Is > = < N _ - ___________
Blank after _ B = Blank condition after
F3=Exit F4=Prompt F12=Cancel F18=View Spool entry
Input Line: The line interval to read including both lines entered here.
Input Position: The Column interval to read including both positions entered here
From left: Inches, pels absolute to the rotation specified by the global settings
for the overlay. If moved beyond the paper edge (e.g. 14") the data
will be removed from the data stream. Note that the Left edge is
measured from the physical paper edge unless the line interval of the
Tabulator is included in an Extended Page Definition interval. In this
case the Left Edge of the Tabulator is measured from the Left
Margin defined in the Extended Page Definition.
Adjustment: Formatting of the text field. The Valid values are:
U Un-formatted. The area is printed without any changes to
formatting, and spaces.
L Left-adjustment. Spaces proceeding the first character in
text lines in the tabulator area are removed, causing the area
to be left adjusted at the position indicated by From Left.
C Centred. Spaces within the tabulator area before and after
text lines are being removed, and the area is centred around
the position indicated by From Left.
R Right-adjustment. Spaces following the character in text
lines in the tabulator area are removed, causing the area to
be right adjusted at the position indicated by From Left.
N Numeric. Indicates if the text lines in the tabulator area
should be considered as numbers (amounts).
B Print succeeding spaces in barcode data. Indicates if the
spaces in the coloumn interval succeeding the barcode data
should be converted to barcode. This only apply to the
barcodes 128 and 3of9. The barcodes will always be leftadjusted.
(Normally succeeding spaces will be ignored.)