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|Sprezzatura Ltd|01 DEC 1989|1.15+|EXPERT|/MERGE/, MERGE, MARGIN|

The system labelled common area /MERGE/ has much more extended application
than that documented in issue 5. Frequently in documents it can be required
to change the left margin on the fly, printing a covering letter at a left
margin of 10, and changing to a left margin of 5 for the attached schedule.
As this is not a supported command in MERGE it can be achieved by
manipulation of the appropriate MERGE common variable. Simply create a
symbolic called LM5 and within the symbolic set @ANS to "" and the sixth
parameter (the left margin parameter) of the /MERGE/ common area to 5.

Remember to reset the margin to 10 after use as otherwise the margin will
remain 5. Achieve this in the same way as LM5. As a side point note that as
MERGE constructs it's print record in a variable, the maximum document size
that can be merged is 64K (including all printer control codes).


(Volume 1, Issue 7, Page 11)