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PlanetPress Talk

PlanetPress Talk is a complete scripting language that opens the door to more powerful and sophisticated documents.

This section introduces the PlanetPress Talk scripting language, describes where and how you can enter PlanetPress Talk code in PlanetPress, explains its syntax and each of its elements, and offers some tips and tricks for writing PlanetPress Talk scripts.

In this section, you learn to:

• Learning PlanetPress Talk

• Integrate PlanetPress Talk into Documents

• Define and Assign Values to Variables

• Select Data

• Use Functions as Arguments

• Debug Scripts

• Tips and Tricks

In this section, you find examples of how you can use PlanetPress Talk to do the following:

• Print a variable number of copies of a page based on a value in the datastream

• Store two lines of input data on one line of the data page

• "Print a page n-up" (page n)

• Print a line of text on odd-numbered pages

• Determine the proper page to print based on the width of the data in the data page

In this section you will be able to answer the following questions:

• Assumed Knowledge

• PlanetPress Talk Basics

• PlanetPress Talk Terminology

• The Elements of PlanetPress Talk

• PlanetPress Talk Syntax

• Data Types

• Variables

• Runpage

• Using Foreign Language Text with PPtalk