Unibase can preprocess repeated text in much the same way it can substitute environment variables. This is done at a low level and so the repeated text is available to report formats, scripts, dictionary entries, etc.
The syntax is simple:
{#<times>{:<start>{:<increment>}};,<text>}
where <times> is the limit of the repeat index.
<text> is the text to repeat (which may span several lines).
<start> is the starting index (optional – default 1)
<increment> is the uncrement per iteration (optional – default 1)
All three numbers can be negative. It works very much like a ‘for loop’ except the limit is the first number. This allows a simple repeat syntax where statr and index are 1.
eg.
{#23, size #}
{#-5:-1:-1,count backwards # }
Inside <text> the character ‘#’ is replaced by the current repeat number.
eg.
{#5,some text #
}
would become
some text 1 some text 2 some text 3 some text 4 some text 5