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(Page) Define Cmd Char .DC



This command allows you to define the character which PAGE takes to be a "command trigger" when found in column 1 of a line.

Normally, when PAGE finds a period "." in column 1 of any line, it attempts to interpret that line as a command. This ordinarily works out fine, since it is very unusual to start a line with a period. However, if you have an unusual circumstance, you may redefine the the character as something else. As a rule, you would want to pick an unusual character like one of the following: |\`~ (Page) Line Feeds .LF

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(Page) Line Feeds .LF


.LF0 turns off CRLF at the end of each line. .LF1 turns on CRLF at the end of each line.

This could be used for a variety of purposes. One example would be writing a tab delimited file, where is defined for italics (and therefore cannot be used within text as itself).

.LF0 DataItem1 .PS DataItem2 .PS .LF1 DataItem3

Notice that .LF1 is executed just before the last item in the line to cause that data field to be followed by the normal CRLF.