Continues flds

Hershel Fisch hershf at rgllc.us
Thu May 8 22:36:47 EDT 2008


On 5/8/08 12:45 AM, "Jim Ault" <JimAultWins at yahoo.com> 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,
Good, that¹s exactly what I would love to do, but Quark doesn't do it in the
language I want and the way I want. Well I don't need it a sophisticated as
Quark,(maybe yes who knows) but to some extent. And mainly for text only.
And by the way what would be the max file size in RR?
Hershel
> 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
>>>>>> 
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>>>>> pepetoo at cox.net
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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