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[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Hey, Jim,

Thanks for stepping in and clearing up Hershel's probable intent.
Too much for me as well. Unless he is actually trying to emulate
a Layout Program such as Quark, he'd probably be better off
revising his objective. If so, maybe someone else has an idea.

Joe Wilkins


On May 7, 2008, at 10:45 PM, Jim Ault wrote:

> Ah, you mean 'text flow' or 'story flow' like they do in Quark.   
> That is a
> specialty feature that word processors and layout programs use, just  
> like
> text wrap.  You could build it in Rev using the formattedHeight,
> formattedWidth.  It will get tricky if you want to allow multiple font
> specs, such as bold, font face, etc.
>
> More than I would want to tackle.
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
>
> On 5/7/08 11:35 PM, "Hershel Fisch" <hershf at rgllc.us> wrote:
>
>> On 5/7/08 7:50 PM, "Joe Lewis Wilkins" <pepetoo at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hershel,
>>>
>>> Maybe I'm kind of dense, but saying "page layout" just doesn't  
>>> tell me
>>> much. Sorry for being so insistent; maybe if I knew the objective of
>>> your program it might. Perhaps you've mentioned that earlier and I
>>> just missed picking up on it.

>>>
>> If you change the field size then the text should automatically  
>> reorganize
>> and it should carry on to the next page or previous or vise versa.
>> Hershel
>>>
>>> Joe Wilkins
>>>
>>> On May 7, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Hershel Fisch wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 5/7/08 5:10 PM, "Joe Lewis Wilkins" <pepetoo at cox.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Hershel,
>>>> For page layout.
>>>> Thanks, Hershel
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been catching your postings for the past day or so, and I'm
>>>>> wondering: why are you not merely using a scrolling text field to
>>>>> hold
>>>>> all of this text? The only reason that I could think of for your
>>>>> needing to separate it into a series of "pages" would  be if it  
>>>>> is to
>>>>> be associated with some art work that would be associated with  
>>>>> that
>>>>> text. Is that the case? If so, what you are proposing is not
>>>>> difficult
>>>>> unless the text is subject to change. I believe your problem  
>>>>> must be
>>>>> more complicated than you have presented to the list. What are you
>>>>> trying to do? In Rev there are so very many ways to skin any cat  
>>>>> that
>>>>> it is difficult to suggest solutions without truly understanding  
>>>>> the
>>>>> underlying objective(s).
>>>>>
>>>>> HTH,
>>>>>
>>>>> Joe Wilkins
>>>>>
>>>>> On May 7, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Hershel Fisch wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm trying to have text in a field and in the next page (like a
>>>>>> book) or
>>>>>> card it should start where the previous page left off.
>>>>>> Hershel
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>