Keystrokes Function
AIt-L (or F10, Layout), Footer
Displays a menu of commands to create page footers.
The Footer menu options are:
All Pages
Inserts into your document the command for a footer that appears on all pages except the first. The onscreen command name for this type of footer is FOOTER.
Title Page
Inserts a command at the top of your document to print a footer on the first page only. The onscreen command name for this type of footer is FOOTERT.
Odd Pages
Inserts a command at the current cursor position to create a footer on all odd pages (except page 1, which is handled with the Title Page command). The onscreen command name for this type of footer is FOOTERO.
Even Pages
Inserts a command at the current cursor position to create a footer on all even pages. The onscreen command name for this type of footer is FOOTERE.
Position
Lets you determine the exact place the footer will start printing.
Sprint has a default footer line, which centers the current page number in the footing line at the bottom of the page. If you choose any of the Footer commands, you override this default footer, but you can still include the page number as part of your footer text.
Most of the Footer commands create so-called running footers-text that automatically appears in the bottom
Footer Menu
How To
margin of some or all pages of your formatted docu-ment. You can insert a Footer command anywhere in your document, and the text of the footer will appear on all pages following the command.
A footer can contain one or more lines of text, can have embedded formatting commands or rulers, and can have alternating formats for left and right pages (as this Reference Guide has).
To create a running page footer, press Alt-L and choose Footer. Then choose the particular type of footer you want.
If you choose conflicting footers (for example, if you choose Odd Pages and then choose All Pages), Sprint carries out the last-entered footer command.
After you make your selection, Sprint displays the Begin and End commands and places your cursor between them. Type the footing text after the Begin command.
Your footing can be as many lines as you wish.
If you want text to print at the right margin, choose Insert/Wide Space (Spring) before you type the text.
If you want to set-up alternating footers so that one footer line appears on odd-numbered pages and another, different footer line appears on even-numbered pages, you can choose two Footer commands. For example, choose Odd Pages from the Footer menu and type Confidential. Then choose Even Pages from the Footer menu and type Annual Report. Your screen will look like this:
BEGIN FOOTERO Confidential END FOOTERO BEGIN FOOTERE Annual Report END FOOTERE
Sprint will print "Confidential" on every odd-numbered page of your text and "Annual Report" on every even-numbered page.
Footer Menu When you want to eliminate page footers, choose the Footer command but don't enter any text. This tells Sprint to leave your footer lines blank.
If you want the footer to print text and a page number, you need to use the Insert/Variable command and choose the variable Page. This tells the formatter to determine the current page number when printing the footer and insert this page number wherever specified in your Footer command.
For example, if you want to print the text "Annual Report, 1988" in the bottom left part of your footer and the page number in the bottom right of your footer, choose the Footer command and type Annual Report, 1988. Choose Insert/Wide Space (Spring) and then choose Insert/Variable. Choose the variable Page. When your document prints, the formatter will automatically replace the variable Page with the correct 'page number.
You can use any of Sprint's other variables as part of your footer text. For example, if you want the footer to include the current chapter number, choose Insert/
Variable/Other from the menus. When Sprint prompts for the variable to reference, type Chapter. When your document prints, the formatter will print the current chapter number as part of your footer text. If you also want the word "Chapter" to print, type Chapter followed by a space, and then choose the Insert/Variable com-mand.
If you want your footer text to print in bold type, or any other typeface listed on the Typestyle menu, mark your footer as a block and then choose the desired Typestyle command.
You can also insert a ruler within the Footer command and format the text using the usual ruler editing techniques.
The Footer menu also lets you select a specific position for your footer. Choose Position and Sprint prompts for the spacing below the last line of text where the footer should go.
Footer Menu
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Footnote
Keystrokes
Function
If you want a page footer that affects only the first page of your file, you should choose Title Page from the Footer menu.
If you want a footer that affects all pages (including the first), choose Title Page and then choose All Pages and enter the same text in both.
To print a footer that reads "page x of y" (that is, one that tells you what page you're on in relation to the total number of pages), you can do this:
1. On the last line of your document, insert a tag using the Define a Tag command:
TAG lastpage
2. In the footer, reference this tag as well as the value of the Page variable:
Page page of PAGEREF lastpage
When Sprint prints your document, the footer will read
"Page 1 of 30", "Page 2 of 30", and so on.
Header Menu, Page Numbers, Tags, Variables
Alt-S (or F10, Style), References, Footnote Alt-S (or F10, Style), References, Note
Prints a footnote at the bottom of the current page.
The Footnote command inserts a numbered footnote; the Note command inserts an unnumbered one that uses asterisks instead.
When Sprint formats and prints your file, it replaces the Footnote command with a small, raised number (if your printer has this capability), and then places the numbered footnote text at the bottom of the current page. If your printer doesn't support a small font, Sprint prints the number in plain text; if your printer can't perform vertical microspacing, Sprint places the number one-half line above the text to be referenced. If it can't do that, it prints the footnote number on its own line.
How To
Tips
Footnote
If your footnote text is quite lengthy, the formatter will automatically extend the footnote to the next page.
The Notes command operates just like the Footnote command, except that the notes use an asterisk (*) as the reference marker instead of a number. If you use two Notes commands on the same page, the second note will be referenced with two asterisks.
There are two ways to invoke the Footnote command:
• You can type the text of your footnote, select it, and then choose the Footnote command. Sprint inserts a BEGIN and END FNOTE command around the selected text.
• You can choose the Footnote command and then type the text of your footnote. When you choose the com-mand, Sprint inserts the BEGIN and END FNOTE commands and places the cursor between them, ready for you to type the text.
Either way, your footnote text will appear in the middle of your normal file text, like this:
As a result of the XYZ affair,BEGIN FNOTEThis is the sample footnote.END FNOTE and because of other things ...
This may look a little strange when you're editing your file, but when you print, the formatter automatically replaces the onscreen FNOTE command with a number (beginning with 1 and incremented with each Footnote command) and places the number and text of your footnote at the bottom of the page. For example, the previous Footnote command produces the following when you print:
As a result of the XYZ affair,2 and because of other things ...
Look at the bottom of this page for the actual footnote.
Resetting a footnote is useful when you are printing a partial document. For instance, if you're printing only the second half of a document, you might want you footnotes to start with 23. To do this, type the following
2. This is the sample footnote.
Footnote
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formatter command (first choose Style/Other Format) before the next Footnote command:
SET Footnote 22
Note that you'd type u22" not U23." Footnote always adds 1 to the Footnote variable to get the new footnote value.
If you want to renumber your footnotes with each chapter (that is, restart footnote numbering with the number 1 whenever you start a new chapter), type the formatter command
SET Footnote 0
at the beginning of each chapter. If you include this for-matter command in a Header command, footnotes will be numbered from 1 on each page. (You can also modify the macro for @Chapter in the .FMT file if you want
" Sprint to do this automatically.)
One other use of this variable is to assign the same footnote number to two different passages. If both passages relate to the same topic and a single footnote applies to both, make your first footnote reference using the Footnote command. For the second reference, choose + Superscript from the Typestyle menu, then choose Insert/Variable/Other, and type in Footnote. (Choose None "for no template at the next menu.) This procedure references the Footnote variable directly and prints it in superscript typestyle.
The Notes command operates just like the Footnote command, except that the notes are referenced with asterisks instead of numbers (one asterisk for the first one, two for the second, and so forth). Sprint inserts the SNOTE command onscreen (for Ustar note") wherever you place a note.
Endnote, Variables, Page Numbers, and Chapter 2 (Set)
Footnote (Variable)
Refer to the Variables entry for details.
Format (Editing)
Format (Editing)
Refer to the Modifying Formats entry for details.
Format Parameters
See the list at the end of the Modifying Formats entry on page 149.
Formats (General Information)
Keystrokes Function
Alt-S (or F10, Style)
Affects the look of characters, words, lines, paragraphs, and marked blocks of text when you print.
Formats are the most common and most powerful type of Sprint commands. Almost every command from the Style menu is a format command. Moreover, many com-mands from other menus are format comcom-mands as well (especially Typestyle and Layout). What distinguishes these commands is that their effects are not seen until you print your document. Instead, format commands insert special control characters (and often special com-mand words within the control characters) in your docu-ment. The control characters signal how the text should be formatted when you print.
In addition to the many format commands available from the menus, there are dozens more that are not (the menus would have become too large and confusing if we had· included all of them). You can still input them from the menu structure, however, using the catch-all command Other Format (on the Style menu).
Note that some formats act on blocks of your docu-ment's text (for instance, Description, Numbered, and Footnote), and others do not (for instance, Reserved Space, Column Break). Common sense will tell you which are which. If the command affects a block of text (be it one character or pages of text), you should mark the text as a block before choosing the command. If you
Formats (General Information)
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forget to mark the text, Sprint will let you specify whether this is the beginning or the end of the block (region). Every format command affecting a block must have an explicit begin and end statement.
Any format that has a Begin and End can be modified with certain parameters. The best way to do this is to choose the Style/Modify command. The cursor jumps to the last-entered format, and Sprint prompts you to choose to edit that format or the one before it. In either case, you can then enter any applicable parameter (as discussed in the Modifying Formats entry) by typing it in. Press Enterto return to your last cursor position.
The Style command in the .FMT file you're using, or a Style command entered at the top of a file, specifies a general, document-wide format. For example, the Style command can specify margins in a dimension other than column number (like, Offset 3 picas, LineLength 28 picas), define character size and line spacing, and so on. When you want to temporarily deviate from this general for-mat, you can choose a format to create the look you want. For example, choose the Numbered format when you want the formatter to automatically number the steps of a procedure. Once you end a format, Sprint resumes formatting the text as before.
Refer to the individual entries for the format commands for further information.
Modifying Formats, Style Menu
Formatted Print
Refer to the Advanced Options entry for details.