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### Date area

This sub-pane is shown below (in its expanded form).
Apart from the greyed-out area in the centre, this is a fairly typical design sub-pane. The Dark Blue labelling above a framed area describes the elements being addressed in that frame. So, here, the top area alters the date area by setting its overall width/height and offsets with respect to the calendar area.
The offsets are ignored if ‘Centre’ (C) justification is chosen. Otherwise the offsets refer to the distance from the appropriate edge of the calendar area e.g. distance from the right edge if ‘Right’ (R) is chosen. For vertical justification the choices are ‘Top’ (T), ‘Centre’ (C) or ‘Bottom’ (B).
The bottom area controls the date text font/size and position within each date ‘box’ and the offsets and justification settings are interpreted as before - except that they are now relative to the individual ‘box’ sides.
All of the above changes need the Update button to bring changes into effect.
The central greyed-out area only becomes enabled when Format 8 is chosen i.e. a 1-page-per-year calendar showing all 12 months as mini-months in 7×6 date blocks. The four radio icons then determine the layout pattern of the mini-month blocks within the overall user-chosen date area. Thus, 3×4 means the 12 months are arranged in equally-sized blocks, 3 across and 4 down. Clicking these radio icons has an immediate effect on the display.
When in Format 8 it will also be seen that those items concerned with changing the date text position within boxes are disabled, because they are not user-changeable in this format - and there are various other disabling/enabling instances throughout the calendar design editing sub-panes depending on the format being worked on.
It is worth noting at this point that the ‘Date area’ label on the radio icon producing this sub-pane is changed for some formats and the sub-pane’s role changes a little correspondingly. Thus, in Format 5 the radio icon is labelled “Days/Dates” and the sub-pane then controls the area and position of the main grid of boxes which carries both the Date and Day text. The Date text is still controlled here, and the Day text is controlled in the ‘Days’ sub-pane.
Then, in Formats 6 and 9, the radio icon has the text “Dates/Blank boxes” and the main date area controls are now used (and labelled) to size and place the grid of blank boxes which is the key feature of Formats 6 and 9. But the Date text (which in these formats appears in the same boxes as the Days text) is still controlled from the bottom framed area of this current sub-frame.
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