7.1

Summary of Execution Environments 205
Examples of PlanetPress Talk Expressions that Resolve to Pathnames 206
Image Name and Pathname Resolution in Dynamic Images 207
Custom Data Selections 207
PlanetPress Talk Before and After 207
Creating and using Runpages 208
Convert an Object to PlanetPress Talk 209
PlanetPress Talk Basics 211
Assumed Knowledge 211
PlanetPress Talk 211
PlanetPress Talk Terminology 213
The Elements of PlanetPress Talk 213
PlanetPress Talk Syntax 214
Data Types 216
Variables 218
Create a Global Variable 219
View or Edit a Global Variable 220
Delete a Global Variable 220
System Variables with Local Scope 222
System Variables with Global Scope 222
System Objects with Global Scope 223
Current System Object 223
Runpage 226
Using Foreign Language Text with PPtalk 226
Learning PlanetPress Talk 230
Integrate PlanetPress Talk into Documents 231
Define and Assign Values to Variables 231
Select Data 232
Use Functions as Arguments 232
Debug Scripts 232
Tips and Tricks 232
Code Samples 233
Print a variable number of copies of a page based on a value in the datastream 233
Store two lines of input data on one line of the data page 234
Print a line of text on odd-numbered pages 235
Determine the proper page to print based on the width of the data in the data page 235
Language Reference 237
Language Reference (Alphabetical) 237
% (procedure) 237
Current (system object) 237
&currentiteration (variable) 239
&Document (system object) 240
&EOJob (system variable) 240
&FirstSide (system variable) 240
&Height (system variable) 241
&iterationcount (variable) 241
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