# Elementname: `Output`

## Description

This command is similar to PlaceObject and is currently limited to output text which can be broken across positioning frames and which can wrap around objects.

Allowed attributes: allocate, area, row

Child elements: Text

Parent elements: AtPageCreation, AtPageShipout, Case, Contents, ForAll, Loop, Otherwise, Record, SavePages, Until, While

### Attributes

allocate (optional)

  Should text flow around already allocated objects? This currently works on the current page only.

  yes: | Regular behavior: the text does not flow around objects.
  auto: | Text flows around allocated objects.

area (text, optional)

  The name of the positioning frame for the text.

row (number, optional)

  The starting row for the text.

## Example

    <Pagetype name="page" test="true()">
        <Margin left="1cm" right="1cm" top="1cm" bottom="1cm"/>
        <PositioningArea name="text">
          <PositioningFrame width="9" height="4" row="1" column="1"/>
          <PositioningFrame width="9" height="4" row="1" column="11"/>
          <PositioningFrame width="9" height="4" row="6" column="1"/>
          <PositioningFrame width="9" height="4" row="6" column="11"/>
        </PositioningArea>
      </Pagetype>
      <Record element="data">
        <Output area="text">
          <Text>
            <Paragraph fontface="text">
              <Value>A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul,...</Value>
            </Paragraph>
          </Text>
        </Output>
      </Record>

# Commands

- A
- Action
- AtPageCreation
- AtPageShipout
- Attribute
- B
- Barcode
- Bold
- BoldItalic
- Bookmark
- Box
- Br
- Case
- Circle
- Color
- Column
- Columns
- Compatibility
- Contents
- Copy-of
- DefineColor
- DefineFontalias
- DefineFontfamily
- DefineTextformat
- Element
- Fontface
- ForAll
- Frame
- Grid
- Group
- Groupcontents
- HSpace
- Hyphenation
- I
- Image
- Include
- Initial
- InsertPages
- Italic
- Layout
- Li
- LoadDataset
- LoadFontfile
- Loop
- Makeindex
- Margin
- Mark
- Message
- NewPage
- NextFrame
- NextRow
- NoBreak
- Ol
- Options
- Otherwise
- Output
- Overlay
- PDFOptions
- Pageformat
- Pagetype
- Paragraph
- PlaceObject
- Position
- PositioningArea
- PositioningFrame
- ProcessNode
- Record
- Regular
- Rule
- SaveDataset
- SavePages
- SetGrid
- SetVariable
- SortSequence
- Stylesheet
- Sub
- Sup
- Switch
- Table
- Tablefoot
- Tablehead
- Tablerule
- Td
- Text
- Textblock
- Tr
- Trace
- Transformation
- U
- URL
- Ul
- Until
- VSpace
- Value
- While

Version: 3.0.1 | Start page | Command reference | Other language: German