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Field delimiter: Enter the character that separates the fields of each record in the input data. If you want to

use a tab as a delimiter, select Set tab as field delimiter. If you want to use a backslash character (\) as a

delimiter, you must precede it with another backslash character (thus you would enter \\). You can also

specify an ASCII character using its octal value preceded by a backslash (for example, \041 is the exclamation

mark character [!]).

Set tab as field delimiter: Select to define a tab as the character that separates the fields of each record in

the input data. Clear to use the Delimiter box to define that character.

ChannelSkip

The following options are displayed when the Channel Skip emulation is selected.

Skip page: Enter the channel skip code that, in your data, signals the start of a new data page. In standard

channel skip emulation, a 1 (one) signals the start of a new data page. If a 1 appears in the first column of

your data, it is likely the channel skip codes are standard, and that only minor adjustments to the other

codes, if any, will be necessary.

No line feed: Enter the channel skip code that tells the document to ignore any line feed character (LF) that

appears at the end of the line. This causes the next line to print over the current line, and is a technique

impact printers use to print a line, or elements of a line, in bold or with underlining. For example, the input

data for an impact printer might underline text by placing the text to underline on one line, and the

underscore characters of the underline on the following line. The first character of the line with the text is a

code that tells the printer to ignore the LF at the end of that line. The result is underlined text. It is important

to understand what happens when you tell the channel skip emulation in PlanetPress Design to ignore the LF

at the end of a line. Recall that the emulation stores each line of data in the data page buffer, and that each

cell of the data page buffer can contain at most a single character. If the emulation ignores the LF at the end

of a line, it must determine whether to overwrite the cells of the last line of data it stored. In this case, it

compares the character in each cell in the line with the one in the new line destined for that cell. If the

character in the cell is a space or an underscore, it overwrites that character with the one from the new line. If

the character in the cell is not a space or an underscore, it leaves it intact.

Skip x lines: Use these boxes to enter any channel skip codes in your data that tell the document to skip a

specific number of lines. If you want to enter a backslash character (\) as a code, you must precede it with

another backslash character (thus you would enter \\). You can also specify an ASCII character as a code

using its octal value preceded by a backslash (for example, \041 is the exclamation mark character [!]).

Char, Skip to line: Use these boxes to enter any channel skip codes in your data that tell the document to

skip to a specific line. Enter the code in the Char box; enter the line number in the Skip to line box or use the

spin buttons to adjust its value. If you want to use a backslash character (\) as a code, you must precede it

with another backslash character (thus you would enter \\). You can also specify an ASCII character as a code

using its octal value preceded by a backslash (for example, \041 is the exclamation mark character [!]).

Go to column: Use this to enter the channel skip code in your data that tells the document to advance to a

specific column. Enter the code in the Char box to the left of the Go to column label, and use the box on the

right of the Go to column label to set the column number. This is useful when your data contains redundant

lines that were originally created to bold a line on a line printer. By entering a Go to column value that is

greater than the width of the data page, you can remove the second line by shifting the contents of the

second line outside the data page.

XML

The following option is displayed when the XML emulation is selected.

Cache XML data: When this option is selected, PlanetPress Watch/Server only reloads the data if the size or

modified date of XML file changes (loading an XML file can take a long time).