Lines

Occasionally, you'll want to present text that you don't want formatted by the compiler, or that you want to show “as is”. You can use the LINES (lines) tag and its required end tag to do this. All text coded within a LINES definition is treated as unformatted text, and you can position the text however you like on each line. If the text line is too long to fit in the available width, the conversion utility truncates the text and issues a warning message.

The LINES tag requires an end tag.

There are many ways to use a LINES definition. Here we use it for a quotation:

<!doctype dm system>
<panel name=specact width=48>Special Activities
  <area>
    <info width=46>
      <lines>
      Between the dark and daylight,
      When the night is beginning to lower,
      Comes a pause in the days' occupations,
      That's known as the children's hour.
                              -Longfellow
      </lines>
      <p>Every Tuesday evening at seven
      o'clock, we present the Children's Hour,
      a one-hour recital of selected children's
      stories in our children's section.
    </info>
  </area>
</panel>

Our quotation appears just the way we marked it up:

Figure 1. LINES

                Special Activities

        Between the dark and daylight,
        When the night is beginning to lower,
        Comes a pause in the days' occupations,
        That's known as the children's hour.
                                -Longfellow

  Every Tuesday evening at seven o'clock, we
  present the Children's Hour, a one-hour
  recital of selected children's stories in our
  children's section.