Apple MA434Z/A User Manual - Page 606

Text Shortcut %N %x,%X %y %Y Writes Locale's full month name: November Full date representation: mm/dd/yy Year without century: 00-99 Year as ccyy Examples 1: Text String My name is Peter My name is %U My name is %U.\nToday is %M. %d Mult red = {Mult1.red} Writes My name is Peter If login = Dufus: My name is Dufus My name is Dufus. Today is Nov. 12 Assuming the node Mult1 exists, and the red value is .46: Mult red = .46 To get special characters, such as umlauts, copyright symbols, and so on, use octal and hexadecimal codes preceded by a \ (backslash). These codes can be found in UNIX with the main page for "printf" in its special characters section. The following example was provided by Thomas Kumlehn, at Double Negative. Copy and paste it into the Text node: Auml=\xC4, Ouml=\xD6, Uuml=\xDC, \n auml=\xE4, ouml=\xF6, uuml=\xFC \n Szett=\xDF \ntm=\x99, Dot=\x95, (R)=\xAE, (C)=\xA9 A good reference website for characters can be found at www.asciitable.com. (Thanks to Christer Dahl for this tip.) To use expressions, preface the text with "a :" (but without the enclosing quotation marks). All printed commands must be enclosed in quotation marks. For example, if you want to print "Hell" from frames 1 to 10 and "o World" from frames 11 onward, enter: :time