7.6

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Margin (procedure)

Offsets text within a series of commands, relative to the original top left position of the object. Margin also sets the horizontal

position to be used when crlf commands are encountered. All text-rendering functions that make use of margins use this set-

ting.

Syntax

margin( x, y )

Arguments

x, y

Measure values representing the horizontal/vertical position, in inches, of the starting point for the text within an object.

Code Sample Example

This example displays shadowed text by repeating the same text commands twice, using styles of different colours and

slightly offsetting the margin.

Example

margin(1,1) %Set margins to ( 1,1 )

setstyle(&blackfont) %Blackfont must already exist

show('This is shadowed text')

margin(.98,.98) %Offset margins slightly

setstyle(&bluefont) %Bluefont must already exist

show('This is shadowed text')

ShowLeftRight (procedure)

Displays a string of characters, in inches, using a specified width.

Syntax

showleftright( text, width )

Arguments

text

String value to be displayed.

width

Measure value representing the amount of horizontal space to use for displaying the string. showleftright adjusts the amount

of spaces between characters to insure the string fits exactly within the specified width.

Code Sample Example

This example shows how to fit strings of different sizes within the same box that has a width of 3 inches.