More questions regarding revPrintText

[Rob Cozens]

Hi All,

This should be simple; but I'm not seeing the light (perhaps because 
my web page editor hides the html output from me):

I want to print a table (ie: a string of fixed-length records 
terminated by return) using revPrintText, optionally increasing the 
spacing between table elements.

I've experimented with several approaches, the most recent is:

on printTable theTable,theHeader,fontSize,addedSpaceWidth,addedSpaceLocations
   set cursor to watch
   push card
   lock screen
   lock messages
   go to card 1 of stack "Serendipity Library.rev"
   put "<P ALIGN="&quote&"CENTER"&quote&"><FONT FACE="&quote&"Courier 
New"&quote&" SIZE="&quote&fontSize&quote&">" into fieldHeader
   put "</FONT></P>" into fieldFooter
   if addedSpaceWidth is not empty then put justifyString(" 
",addedSpaceWidth) into theSpacer
   put fieldHeader into field "Print Formatter"
   repeat for each line tableLine in theTable
     if addedSpaceWidth > 0 then
       repeat with x = the number of lines of addedSpaceLocations down to 1
         put theSpacer after char (line x of addedSpaceLocations) of tableLine
       end repeat
     end if
     put tableLine&"<BR>" after field "Print Formatter"
   end repeat
   put fieldFooter after field "Print Formatter"
   revShowPrintDialog true,true
   revPrintText (field "Print Formatter"),"<b>"&(the short 
Date)&tab&theHeader&"</b>",tab&"<%pagenumber%>"
   put empty into field "Print Formatter"
   pop card
   unlock messages
   unlock screen
   set cursor to hand
end printTable

The issues I need to resolve are:

1.  How to get the text center aligned (<P 
ALIGN="&quote&"CENTER"&quote&"> doesn't work...it just prints in 
front of the first line of the table).

2.  How to adjust print margins.  (I haven't tried the obvious: 
setting the printMargins, 'cause I've been focused on the centering 
issue.)  I will test that here.

There are a couple of other glitches in this version (eg: setting 
font & size for the header & footer) but I can deal with them myself.

In addition to the above, I have tried:

* Moving the table to the field, selecting the text and changing 
font, size, and alignment by script, and sending revPrintText the 
htmlText of the field.  Among other things, this loses the return 
character on each line [I know the returns are replaced by "<BR>" 
above; but they were retained in an earlier version.]

* Prefixing each line with <FONT FACE & SIZE>
-- 

Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company
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