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:
  1. Type the command(s) at the point where you wish the effect to begin. Put each command on its own line.
  2. 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:

  1. First use the basic EZ styles as they are.
  2. If the basic style is not right, modify the styles using lookz.
  3. Use a format note in cases like changing the whole document where to use lookz would be more complicated than inserting a format note.
  4. Use a format note with extreme care. It may interact with other parts of the document.