Documentation Dynamic Media Image Serving and Rendering API

Paragraph formatting

Last update: July 12, 2021

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The following paragraph formatting commands are supported.

Command	Description	Notes
\pard	Reset paragraph formatting to default.	textPs= only
\ql	Left-align text.	Default.
\qr	Right-align text.
\qc	Center text horizontally.
\qj	Justify text horizontally.	textPs= only
\lastql	Left-align the last line of a paragraph.	Default; textPs= only; ignored if \qj is not active.
\lastqr	Right-align the last line of a justified paragraph.	textPs= only; ignored if \qj is not active.
\lastqc	Center the last line of a justified paragraph.	textPs= only; ignored if \qj is not active.
\lastqj	Sustify (stretch) the last line of a justified paragraph.	textPs= only; ignored if \qj is not active.
\fi N	First line indent.	Twips; textPs= only.
\li N	Left indent.	Twips; textPs= only.
\ri N	Right indent.	Twips; textPs= only.
\sl N	Space between lines.	0 (default) for automatic line spacing; positive values to only use value if larger than default line spacing; negative value to force spacing.
\slmult N	Line spacing multiple flag.	Set to 0 (default) if \sl is in twips, to 1 if \sl is in multiples of the default spacing.
\sb N	Extra space before paragraph.	Twips; text= applies \sb to the first paragraph in the text box, textPs= does not.
\sa N	Extra space after paragraph.	Twips; text= applies \sa to the last paragraph in the text box, textPs= does not.