Standard Paragraph Attributes

In the Standard Attributes group, you find the general attributes that can be defined in paragraph formats:

• Meaning

  Precise explanation of your paragraph tag, so that the user can immediately identify it.

• Left or right margin

  Amount of space between the paragraph and the left or right border of the form window.

• Indent first line

  Indent of the first line of a paragraph. If the value is positive, it is indented to the right, if it is negative, it is indented to the left.

  If you specify a negative value, then you must place the minus sign after the number: 1-.

• Space before and space after

  Space before and space after control the amount of space between paragraphs. The actual space between paragraphs results from the space after the preceding paragraph and the space before the following paragraph.

• Alignment

  A paragraph can be left-justified or right-justified. Possible values:

  LEFT	Left-aligned
  RIGHT	Right-aligned
  CENTER	Centered
  BLOCK	Justified

  • Line spacing

    Spacing between the lines. The default value is 1 line. The LPI value (lines per inch) in the header data is used to calculate the line spacing.

  • No blank lines

    Suppression of blank lines. You can control whether the blank lines of a paragraph should be suppressed in the printout or not:

    Not selected	Blank lines not suppressed
    Selected	Blank lines suppressed

    • Page protection

      Cohesion of a paragraph. It is possible to determine whether or not a paragraph can be divided by a page break.

      Not selected	No page protection (default)
      Selected	All lines of the paragraph are on one page

      • Next paragraph same page

        Cohesion of two adjacent paragraphs. Here you can define whether the subsequent paragraph should begin on the same page (that is, at least the first line of the subsequent paragraph must be on the same page).

        Not selected	Subsequent paragraph is output on the same page or the next page, depending on the amount of space (default)
        Selected	Subsequent paragraph begins on the same page