Reply to note from Bob Newell <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:58:53 -1000
Bob,
> what would be super cool (and maybe already possible?) would be to
> embed xyscript commands /within/ a document and have these executed
> when a file is loaded.
This is an excellent idea -- and it's absolutely already possible, by way of the PRINTEX command.
Put the settings at the top of the file, enclosed in vertical bars, fore and aft, with the settings
separated by semicolons, like this:
|PVFAMILY default;PVSIZE 12;PVMARGINL 1.25in;PVMARGINR 1.25in;...|
Command PV to get a preview pane. Then command:
SA;PRINTEX temp.md
You should get a clean markdown file, temp.md, in a new tab and a preview that reflects the given
settings. To tweak the format, close temp.md, edit your source file, then repeat the command above.
When satisfied, command PRINT against temp.md (not the source file) to create a PDF.
A sample source file using The Gettysburg Address is attached.
--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxxxx
|PVFAMILY default;PVSIZE 14;PVCODE default;PVCODESIZE 10;PVMARGINL 1.3in;PVMARGINR 1.55in;PVMARGINT 1.65in;PVMARGINB 1.65in;PVPAPER letter;PVLEADING 0.65em;PVSPACING 1.2em;PVPAGENUM off;PVPAGEPOS bottom-center;PVJUSTIFY on;PVINDENT off;PVHEADER off;PVFOOTER off|## The Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.