Create mode
Creating a text PostScript file
To do this
you simply type in text which will be displayed,
with multiple spaces suppressed, formatted in ragged right
justification at a text width you can control. Using Editps in
Stack mode the text width is adjusted to the width of the collage,
but using Editps in Create mode you specify the text width.
The text you supply can be formatted by including formatting
commands enclosed in curly brackets. For instance, to force a
line break you would use {newline}.
To avoid inconvenient font changes, swapping to ISOLatin1Encoding
and using
octal codes, shortcut commands are supplied for fomatting and
printing many of the
frequently used letters, such as {alpha}. The formatting commands
available to Editps in Stack mode and Create mode will be
listed after first dealing with the important subject of the
BoundingBox.
The BoundingBox in text mode
For technical reasons, Editps cannot calculate a BoundingBox
accurately for text until the formatting has taken effect
and the number
of actual text lines and their dimensions have been decided. So,
if the BoundingBox shown in GSview is innaccurate, there are two
actions you can take to obtain an accurate BoundingBox.
If you adjust the text yourself in the edit box
so that the number of actual text lines in the edit box is the
same as the number of lines in the display after formatting,
then the
BoundingBox (as calculated from the number of text lines
before formatting is done) should be accurate. This is easily
achieved using line breaks and {newline} commands if necessary, and
does not require the line breaks in the text edit box to be at
the same places as line breaks in the displayed text after
formatting.
Another way is to create a .ps file and use GSview to make
a .eps file from it,
since this will always produce an accurate BoundingBox.
If the BoundingBox is not accurate, your word processor will not be
able to scale and position the graph accurately, and unwanted
clipping may occurr.
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