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A control file that is used to provide the data for assembling into a composite document may be a simple text list or a CSV file. An IDF document is, strictly speaking, a control file too. However an IDF document 'control file' also contains code for creating a document as well as data, so it is treated differently. See Editing an IDF document.
A "text" control file is basically a list of files: see Creating an LOF control file. Each line of the file starts with the name (and path if the documents are not all in the same folder) of one of the component documents. The filename may be a wild-carded file specification; filenames must be enclosed in single quotes if they contain spaces. By default, EscapeE will create a field definition file with the same filestem automatically if none already exists. For complex composite documents, however, you may find it convenient to set up separate field definition files for some of the component files: see LOF details. |
If the control file has extension .CSV or begins with a double-quote character it is assumed to be a set of field definitions in comma-separated form: see Editing a data control file. |
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