HP Integrity NonStop H-Series - Manual (Page 278)

Drawing Boxes
Using Special TFORM Features
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Drawing Boxes Drawing a box around text, or enclosing a figure or illustration in a box, is
an effective way of drawing attention to specific information in your
document. TFORM boxes can be as small as two lines or as large as several
pages.
TFORM draws hyphens across the width of the page for the top and bottom
of the box; the sides are drawn with vertical bars. There is a single line
between the box and the first line of text, and between the last line of the
text and the bottom of the box. Everything inside the box is slightly
indented to provide side margins. If joining and justification are in effect,
they continue within the box.
Note You can change many of the characteristics of boxes, including the symbol used to draw
them and the margin settings within the box. In addition, you can mark large boxes with a
right arrow to indicate that they continue for more than one page. See the PS TEXT
FORMAT Reference Manual for a complete discussion of using boxes in TFORM.
You use the SET BOX command to draw boxes. To start the box, enter SET
BOX ON. To end the box, enter SET BOX OFF. All of the area between
these two commands is enclosed in the box. For example:
\SET BOX ON
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\SET BOX OFF
Text to be included
in the box
Ends the box
Starts the box
Figure 11-6 shows an edit file that uses a box to emphasize text. Figure 11-7
illustrates how the box appears in the printed document.