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Page Footings: The .FO command may be used to specify a line of text to be
printed at the bottom of each page. Use of this command is similar to use of
the .HE command (preceding).
The most recently specified footing is used
when the bottom of each page is encountered.
If
the footing contains a II, the
page number will be printed in place of the II.
The .FM (footing margin) command may be used to specify the number of
blank lines between the bottom of the text area and the footing line. The
footing margin lies within the bottom margin; varying the footing margin
moves the footing up and down without changing the number of lines of text on
the page. No footing will be printed if the bottom margin (.MB) is set to zero.
The Standard Footing is the Page Number:
If
no footing is in effect (no .FO
command given, or most recent .FO command has no text after ".FO"), the
820-11 will print the the page number in the footing line unless suppressed with
a .OP command. The page number is centered at the column specified with
the .PC command; the standard is column 33 (or column 30 if a 64-column
wide screen is used, reflecting the narrower standard margins used in the edit
function), so as to be centered under text typed using the standard margins.
Page Numbering: The 820- II numbers the pages in each file from 1 up as the
file is printed.
The page number may be changed as desired with the .PN
command. For example, if a file represented the second chapter of a large
document, and there were 23 pages in the first chapter, you might want to put
.PN 24
at the beginning of the chapter two file,
so
that its pages would be numbered
from 24 up as it was printed.
Note that .PN affects the page numbering at printout only; the page numbers
displayed in the status line during editing always start with
1
and increase by
1
each page.
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The maximum page number your system will accept is 65533. (For the other
dot commands, the maximum is 255.)
The page number may be positioned wherever desired in the heading or footing
line by using a
II
in the .HE or .FO command (see .HE page
II
on page 8-3).
If
no footing is specified, the page number is printed in the footing line.
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This
page number printout may be turned off with .OP, and turned on with .PN (no
number need be given after .PN unless it is also desired to set the page
number). The column at which the page number prints in the footing may be
changed with .PC n. For example, if you wanted to center the page number
under text 80 columns wide (as formatted during editing) you could use:
.PC 40
OTHER FEATURES
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