Conciseness is important when the output is directed to the terminal because typically only 80 columns and 22 lines are available for listings.
Attractiveness contributes to the readability and clarity of a listing.
These goals are implemented as completely as possible. In situations where they are incompatible, economic use of space takes priority. However, there are a number of LIST command options that may be used to change or improve the appearance of the output when that is more important than conserving space. The text is formatted much the same way as text produced by a word processing software package, with justification, paragraphs and pagination. In addition, the reports can include character strings, values from the file, and evaluations of complex expressions containing functions and operators.