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Manual page for INLINECODES(TDH)

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INLINE FORMATTING CODES

The following inline formatting codes may be used. Whether or not inline formatting codes are processed is under user control; in scripts use the #control allowinlinecodes directive; with fldfmt(1) codes are processed unless turned off with the -l option.

:coln

Place the following non-blank content at character column n. Code must be followed by whitespace.

:decn

Decimal-align or right-align the following variable's contents at character column n. Numerics will be aligned so that the ones column is at column n. Non-numerics will be aligned to that the last character falls at column n. Code must be followed by whitespace. Decimal point character may be period (.) or comma (,) settable in your project config file

:dchn

Same as :dec but pad with HTML space characters ( )

:dotn

Place the following non-blank content at character column n, and connect with leader dots beginning at current position. Code must be followed by whitespace.

:c

Suppress terminating newline. Allows multiple results to be concatenated on one line. Must be last character.

:u+

Turn on display of embedded underscores (in fields/variables). (This code includes one trailing space).

:u-

Turn off display of embedded underscores (in fields/variables). (This code includes one trailing space).


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