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other pagesin the document scale that same header to fit in the lower left corner ofeach page. Any modification you sub-

sequently make to the headeris automatically reflected throughout the document.

Syntax

$element

Arguments

element

String value specifying the name of the element you want to execute.

Examples

Example 1 illustrates basic usage of the syntax.

$my_square

$page1

$box5

Example 2 scales the $header element to one quarter of its original size, and rotates it 90 degrees.

scale( 0.25, 0.25 )

setangle( 90 )

$header

Example 3 creates a thumbnail of each of the first two pages and positions the thumbnails side-by-side.

scale( 0.10, 0.10 )

$page1

translate( 8.5, 0 )

$page2

+ (operator & function)

Either concatenates two or more strings or adds two numerical expressions, depending on its context.

This description details how to use it to concatenate two strings. See "Add (function)" (page 550) for help using it to add two

numerical expressions.

Syntax

string1 + string2 + ... string

Arguments

string1, string2,...

String values.

Code Sample Example

The following code sample concatenates five strings into a single string that contains the first and last name of a customer.