Formatting Text

Prerequisites

Styles and Forms: SAPscript contains a basic set of "built-in" paragraph and character formats in the default form SYSTEM. If you use SYSTEM, you can always use the B lock, C entered, and L eft-justified paragraph formats.

A style contains a larger set of paragraph and character formats, from which you can choose. A form contains the "page design" for your document (letter, check, invoice, and so on). A form may contain character and paragraph formats, as well.

If SAPscript was started for you automatically, the correct style and form for the document you are working on has probably already been selected.

If you started SAPscript yourself, then you should pick out the style that you want to use. Leave the default form SYSTEM unchanged.

For more information, see Styles and Forms.

Procedure

Formatting Paragraphs

  1. Enter the paragraph formatting tag into the format tag column.

    Using the input help you can display all available paragraph formats. For a list of available formats choose Start of the navigation pathFormat Next navigation step ParagraphEnd of the navigation path. The format you choose applies to the entire paragraph, no matter where the cursor is positioned in the paragraph.

    An asterisk * in the format column shows that a paragraph is to be formatted with whatever the default paragraph format is. The default format is specified in the style or form assigned to your document.

Formatting Characters

To format one or more characters, enclose the characters in character formatting tags:

  1. Mark the character(s) that you want to format.

    If you want to format an entire word, just put the cursor in the word. You do not need to mark the word.

    You can apply a continuous character format only within a single paragraph. To format a character string that crosses to another paragraph, apply the character format separately to each part of the string.

    For more information, see Marking Text.

  2. To get a list of the available formats, choose Start of the navigation pathFormat Next navigation step CharacterEnd of the navigation path.

  3. In the dialog window, double-click on the desired character format.

    SAPscript enters the "<>" tags for the format around the text you marked. If you have not marked any text, the tags are inserted into the text at the cursor position. You can then type the text that is to be formatted within the format start <nn> and format end </> tags.

    You can enclose as many characters as you want in character tags, even several lines of one paragraph.

    Your character formatting overrides any character formatting applied by the paragraph formats.