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Force one record per page: Select to force a single record per data page. If you
clear the selection, the document fills the data page completely, splitting a record
across data pages if necessary. If you want to avoid splitting a record across data
pages, yet have several records in the buffer, select Force one record per page,
and, when you stabilize your data, set Pages in buffer to the number of records you
want the buffer to hold.
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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 [!]).
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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.
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Channel skip.
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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.
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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
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