End of Month

Using this setting will generate as many lines as are necessary, starting on the date of the token, not necessarily the first day of the month, and ending at the end of the specified number of months, as shown on the right.

This setting, when selected, displays an additional control Step by, whose default value is 1, but which allows you to specify that each new line generated is more than 1 day after the previous one.

Note that the calculation takes into account the value of the first date of template property of the current Template, so that in the case of a value of Week of the 1st, the number of lines will usually be more than the number of days in the month, since these grids start at the beginning of the week prior to the 1st of the month.

Relative DayValue

Using this setting will generate lines until the DayValue relative to the DayValue of the GenTokens reaches a certain value. By relative, we mean within the same month (ie. modulo 42). So for example, if we have a [85GenTokens1] token and a relative DayValue of 17, then lines will be generated for DayValues from 85 to 101 (= 2*42 + 17).

Day of Month

This setting is useful when months are split across 2 columns. An example may have [1GenTokens1] running until the Day of Month 17, and an [18GenTokens2] running until the End of the Month.

Number of Lines

The Number of Lines setting allows you to specify that the GenTokens should run for a specific number of lines, regardless of the number of days in each month.

➢This setting, when selected, displays an additional control Step by which allows you to specify that each new line generated is more than one day after the previous one.

By default, its value is 1, meaning that each new line corresponds to a date 1 day later then the previous line.

By changing this value, to 7 for example, you can display thicker lines to separate months in planner-style diaries such as the one shown on the right (or here).

In the example above, the horizontal rules are displayed using one vertical textbox per weekday, with GenTokens running from [1GenTokens1] to [7GenTokens1], each a Number of Lines value of 27 and using a Step by value of 7 days.

To determine how many times to step by 7 days, you can refer to the minimum and maximum number of weeks needed to cover a given number of months table found in the appendices

Minimum Number of Lines or EOM

This setting is a variation of the Number of Lines setting, above, and is usually used when months are split across 2 columns, and you wish to have the same index GenTokens for both halves of the month.

➢This setting, when selected, displays an additional control Step by which allows you to specify that each new line generated is more than one day after the previous one.

Using this setting, lines will be generated until the number specified is reached, or the end of the month is reached, whichever comes first.

This setting is useful when the first half of the month has 16 or more days (i.e. when the Number of Lines setting is 16 or above), to prevent too many lines from being generated in the second column.

Number of Lines / EOM

This setting is a variation of the Number of Lines setting, above, and is usually used when months are split across 2 columns, and you wish to have the same index GenTokens for both halves of the month.

➢This setting, when selected, displays an additional control Step by which allows you to specify that each new line generated is more than one day after the previous one.

Using this setting, lines of the first half of the month will be generated until the number specified is reached, and lines of the second half of the month will be generated until the end of the month is reached.

This setting is useful when the first half of the month has 15 or less days (i.e. when the Number of Lines setting is 15 or less), to ensure that enough lines are generated in the second column to reach the end of the month.

The determination of whether a GenTokens token is in the first or second half of the month is based on the DayValue of the current GenTokens token. A GenTokens token with a DayValue below 10, such as [8GenTokens1] will be treated as being in the first half of the month, while a GenTokens token with a DayValue below 10, such as [16GenTokens1] will be treated as being in the second half of the month.

Default line ending

This setting specifies which line ending settings to use by default, ie. if none of the Special Cases below are true.

Note that if you select Hard Return for this setting, each line generated will have the paragraph attributes of the current [GenTokens]. This is important because, if there is no paragraph mark after the GenTokens token, any rules above/below that are part of the paragraph attributes of the token will not be visible in the GridTemplate, but will become visible in the output file because each generated line ends with a line ending (even the last generated line).

No line ending when token line is blank

This setting allows you to specify that there should be no line ending whenever the series of tokens converts to a blank line.

This is particularly useful to generate monthly or yearly tables of events that do not occur everyday (holidays, planetary events, ...). This is similar, but more powerful than using duration suffixes with holidays tokens.

Note that this option considers a token line to be blank if all it contains is non-visible characters and spaces, so that a line containing a tab and a Moon token would be counted as blank on dates when there are no Moon phases, although the tab is still there.

To see the details of the condition or line ending used, without modifying it, you do not need to click on the button edit; simply place your mouse over the control and a pop-up hint will display a summary of the settings used.