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Re: Pgm to increase point size



At 05:03 AM 3/31/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Harry, Carl, et al.:
>
>You don't need to assume anything about vertical or horzontal unit of measure
>defaults in a VA command. Just put the unit in the VA, like this:
>
>VAhorizontal).
>
>VA(2) components.
>
>The < operator and the numeral work in any command that uses units of measure
>and/or multiple values. VAin centimeters, for the indent-paragraph setting.
>
>The BE command lets you search back and modify an existing delta. If you
>know that there's an embedded SZ command, you can do, from the command line
>or within a BX:
>
>be sz 32pt,48pt
>
>to change all the type from the last delta to the cursor to a
>pseudo-condensed font 32 pts wide and 48 pts high.
>
>Lots of other possibilites, including the fact that BE will take increment
>and decrement commands (BE SZ +2pt will reset the SZ command to a single
>value of +2pt).
>
>The BE command has some switches and other whistles and bells that I don't
>have time to explore right now. You can find some instances in the DLG file.
>
>Tim Baehr
>tbaehr@xxxxxxxx
>
Is there any way you could document all this stuff?!! Seems like we peons
are working with only half the power of Xy4.

Regards,

Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx