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Asis Processing Instruction
The Asis processing instruction (PI) <?Pub Asis> comes before a file entity and indicates that when it was created, the file entity came from within an asis region. This tells Arbortext Editor to preserve new lines in the file.
An asis region is one in which new lines in the document content are preserved and cause line breaks both in the Edit pane and in published output. A region is asis if the FOSI specified justification (that is, quadding) in effect is asis.
When used, this PI follows the Context PI. It is visible only in the SGML source.
You can use the oid_asis() function to query whether or not a given point in a document is in an asis region. If you place the cursor at the beginning of a file entity, the oid_asis() will return 1 if there is an asis PI in the file entity.
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oid_asis does not return the correct result if it is passed oid_caret() in a fragment with no tags. It does work correctly if it is not passed any arguments.
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