Con-form is a text formatter which is automatically installed with Con-nect.
To write your text, you can use the Con-nect editor (see the Con-nect User's Guide, section Text Processing).
This documentation provides a step-by-step introduction to Con-form. It starts with simple text formatting instructions and gradually introduces more complex features.
Many Con-form instructions are illustrated by examples. The examples show both how you specify an instruction in your source text and how the formatted output looks. As a rule, the term "output", as used in the examples, refers to the printed version of the formatted document.
This documentation is subdivided into the following sections:
| Con-form Instructions | Explains how to specify Con-form instructions in your source text. It also explains how you can suppress the recognition of Con-form instructions. |
| Writing a Simple Document | Introduces the most important instructions that you need to produce a simple document. |
| Document Layout | Explains how to define the document layout. |
| Positioning Text | Explains features such as centering or right-adjusting text, indenting paragraphs and defining page breaks. |
| Emphasizing Text | Explains features such as boldface printing and underlining. Furthermore, it explains how to use escape sequences so that you can define, for example, italic text. |
| Hyphenation | Explains how to activate hyphenation for the English, French or German language. |
| Tabs and Boxes | Explains how to set tab stops and create boxes. |
| Formatting Large Documents | Explains how to merge several documents into a single output document ("embedding"). It also explains how to create a table of contents and an index. |
| Variables | Explains how to work with variables. |
| Conditional and Repetitive Processing | Explains how to define consequences that are to be processed when the result of a relation is true. |
| Macros | Explains how to work with macros. |
| Controlling the Output | Explains how to define the pages to be output (printed) and the paper tray to be used. It also explains how to replace multiple blanks with a single blank and how to translate characters. |
| Formatting a Document | Explains how to format a document, use a printer profile and define a formatting profile. |
| Special Characters | Explains the characters that have a special meaning in Con-form. |
| Form Letters | Explains how to create a form letter which contains variables that are to be substituted with information from an Adabas file. Furthermore, it explains how to test whether your form letter produces the desired results before you have the variables replaced with data from the database. |
| Deprecated Instructions | Lists all Con-form instructions which are still retained for compatibility with older Con-form versions. However, it is recommended that you do not use these instructions. |
The following topics are covered below:
The following is an alphabetical list of all Con-form instructions.
The following is an alphabetical list of all Con-form options.