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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.
l
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 under-
line 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 con-
tain 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 com-
pares 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.
l
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 [!]).
l
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 num-
ber 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 [!]).
l
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 num-
ber. 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.
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