Multicolumn Printing (Text Flow)

[depstein at att.net]

Here's another approach to the text overflow calculation:

function extraText f -- removes from fld f, and returns, the htmlText that overflows size of fld f
  repeat with c = 1 to length(fld f)
    if the formattedHeight of char 1 to c of fld f > the height of fld f then
      put the htmlText of char c to -1 of fld f into myHtml
      delete char c to -1 of fld f
      return myHtml
    end if
  end repeat
  return empty
end extraText

David Epstein

> 4. Multicolumn Printing (Text Flow)? (Frank D. Engel, Jr.) 

> My best guess is to create separate fields for the left and right 
> columns and somehow figure out where to split the text so that I can 
> fit the text neatly into the two columns. Does anyone know of an easy 
> way to figure out where to split this?