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the formatting commands

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formatting commands

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The commands used to specify how the media components like text and pictures
should be presented.

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Without any formatting commands, the text and pictures will be glued together.
Multiple white spaces are reduced to a single blank. .nl .nl

1- text formatting commands:
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.quote-line .para or .PARA
.nl Paragraph: equivalent to two newlines and indentation of xxx characters
for the first line of the paragraph

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.quote-line .nl
.nl Newline

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.quote-line .quote <a word>
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or other special characters in it. For example to show the command
.quote .nl, the author has to write .quote-line .quote .nl

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.quote-line .quote-line <a line>
.nl Same as quote, but takes the whole line as its argument.

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.quote-line .spaces <number of spaces>
.nl Insert N spaces

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.quote .rem
.nl Remark. The rest of the line is ignored. Used to put comments in a 
storyboard 


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PROJECTS:
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- a blank line in the storyboard will be equivalent to a newline 
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- .quote .table-on/off will be used to turn-off or turn on the formatting.
When the formatting is turned off, the text is displayed exactly as typed.