Text Elements of a Form 

SAPscript calls the individual text components of a form 
text elements. To achieve good structuring and readability, 
you assign a fixed name to each text element in the form. 
The print program then uses these names to access the 
elements. This name applies also for translated versions of 
a text element, while the contents of the text elements 
depend on the language. 

Text elements are related to a window, that is, a print 
program can call for each window only those text elements 
that exist in this window. The screen below (shot in the 
SAPscript line editor) shows the definition of the text 
elements HEADING and FLIGHTLIST in the window MAIN. The 
variables used within '&...&' are replaced by the system at 
output time (see also Representing Text Elements in the PC 
Editor).



You can compare text elements with numbered texts in ABAP 
programs (for example, TEXT-001). However, text elements 
are much more flexible:

The length of a text element is unlimited.
Text elements may contain variable symbols.
You can use several different formatting options within one 
text element.
You can use SAPscript control statements in text elements.
In each window, you may use two different kinds of text 
elements:

Text Elements with Names

Text Elements Without Names

The print program can Activate Text Elements.

TextElements in are to hold solely character type data for 
SAPscript layout.
It's of 2 tyes:
  1> Named Text Element ( print prog & layout )
  2> Nameless Text Element ( only layout )