Title Statement; Specifying A Field Name Within A Title Statement; Spacing Considerations - Tandem ENFORM 058057 Reference Manual

Statements

TITLE Statement

TITLE Statement
Specifying a Field Name
within a TITLE Statement

Spacing Considerations

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The TITLE statement allows you to specify a title to be printed the top of each page for
all subsequent reports in the current session unless cancelled or reset by another TITLE
statement or temporarily overridden by a TITLE clause. ( See the TITLE clause in
Section 5.) The syntax of the TITLE statement is:
TITLE [ print-list [ CENTER ] ] [ ; ]
print-list
can contain any combination of literals, FORM, SKIP, SPACE, or TAB clauses. A
print-list can also contain the following elements that can be modified by AS, AS
DATE, or AS TIME clauses: field names, arithmetic expressions, IF/THEN/ELSE
expressions, System Variable clauses, JULIAN-DATE clauses, TIMESTAMP-DATE
clauses, TIMESTAMP-TIME clauses, user variables, or parameter names.
The clauses that can be used in a print-list are discussed in Section 5. The other
elements are discussed in Section 3.
If you specify a field name within the print-list of a TITLE statement, the field has the
same value as in the first row of the page. A field appearing within the TITLE
statement need not be explicitly included within the following LIST statements. If it is
not included, ENFORM effectively adds it with a NOPRINT clause.
By default the title begins printing in the same column position as the leftmost report
column. Using SPACE or TAB clauses as the first element of the print-list overrides
this default. SPACE or TAB clauses can also appear anywhere within the print-list. In
the following example, the SPACE clause causes the two literals to be separated by 15
spaces:
TITLE "Inventory" SPACE 15 "Parts in Stock";
Inventory
If you specify either a SKIP clause or the symbol / (slash) within a print-list, the printer
advances one or more lines before printing the rest of the TITLE print-list. The number
of lines advanced can be affected by one or more of the following: the digit (if any)
following the keyword SKIP, the number of slashes specified, or the option variable
@VSPACE. In the following example, the SKIP clause of the TITLE statement causes
two lines to be printed:
TITLE "Report 2-A" SKIP "Total Sales";
Report 2-A
Total Sales
058057 Tandem Computers Incorporated
Parts in Stock