% format-modifier c

The parse continuation operator causes OmniMark to resume parsing at the point it is encountered. %c or suppress must occur once and once only within a string expression in the body of a markup rule. Any data output as the result of subsequent parsing is output at the place %c occurs in the string. Only one %c operator or suppress action may occur in a rule.

The %c parse continuation operator may have modifiers, called element content format modifiers. These modifiers apply to the stream (or streams) to which the "%c" is written to. These modifiers apply only to data content characters that are written as a result of parsing the content. Literal text written to these streams is not affected by the "%c" modifiers.

It is possible to override the subcomponents, even those going into the same stream, by removing the modifier with the following syntax:

  put my-stream with " " "%c"

The element content format modifiers are:

• "h" -- prevents line-breaking rules like insertion-break and replacement-break from applying to the content of the current component.
• "l" -- converts all text to lowercase. It only applies to letters in the processed document (data characters in content and attribute values) that are copied from the input to the output. It does not apply to letters in quoted strings in the OmniMark program.
• "u" -- converts all of the text to uppercase. It only applies to letters in the processed document (data characters in content and attribute values) that are copied from the input to the output. It does not apply to letters in quoted strings in the OmniMark program.
• "s" -- causes white space to be stripped in the processed content as follows:
  1. Leading and trailing spaces and line-ends are removed from components.
  2. Sequences of tabs and spaces are condensed to a single space.
  3. Sequences of line-ends, together with any intervening, leading, or trailing tabs and spaces, are condensed to a single line-end.
  The "s" modifier affects only text received directly from the SGML parser, or from characters specified with format items that explicitly allow stripping.
• "z" -- turns off translate rules that would otherwise apply to all or part of the content.