How to Make a FormatNote
If the styles available on menu cards in EZ do not
meet your formatting needs, you can use commands from
troff, the UNIX typeset runoff formatting
package. You can add troff commands by using the
FormatNote style. To use format notes, you would:
- Type the command(s) at the point where you wish the effect to
begin. Put each command on its own line.
- Select the command(s) as you would any region, and choose
FormatNote from the Region menu card. This tells EZ
to pass through the commands for interpretation by the part
of EZprint that does formatting, rather than printing
them out in the document.
You may wish to use preview before printing your document, to
make sure that you have achieved the formatting effects you want;
embedding troff commands will change the look of the
final output, although they will not change how it looks in the editor
window.
Here is a rule of thumb for knowing when to use a format note:
- First use the basic EZ styles as they are.
- If the basic style is not right, modify the styles using lookz.
- Use a format note in cases like changing the whole document where
to use lookz would be more complicated than inserting
a format note.
- Use a format note with extreme care. It may interact with other
parts of the document.