Multicolumn Printing (Text Flow)?

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

Looks great, except that I had no intention of ever displaying the 
stack I was printing from (I created an "invisible" stack to use for 
printing, one which the end user should never see).  Will the "click" 
command still work in this case?

I'll definitely experiment with this, it looks *much* better than what 
I came up with so far.

Thank you!

On Nov 15, 2004, at 11:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 11/15/04 3:06 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
>
>> I'm reasonably certain I'm going to have to jury-rig something to get 
>> this working, but just in case anyone is aware of some easy (or 
>> easier) solution, I thought it might be a good idea to ask...
>> I need to generate a printout featuring a header, a footer, and two 
>> columns of body text in between.  The body text is coming from a 
>> single body of text (in other words, on data entry, it is entered as 
>> one long data entry in a single field, but when printed I need to 
>> split it into two columns).  This is paragraph-style data, so I can 
>> hardly just count lines and split in half or anything...
>> 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?
>
> There is an old HyperCard hack for this. It isn't elegant -- I suppose 
> there is a more mathematical way -- but it works. We were never above 
> attacking these problems by brute force. ;)
>
> You might want to lock the screen while this executes:
>
> on splitText
>   get the bottomright of fld 1
>   subtract 5 from item 1 of it
>   subtract 5 from item 2 of it
>   click at it
>   put the number of words in char 1 to (word 4 of the selectedchunk) \
>       of fld 1 into theLastWd
>   set the htmltext of fld 2 to the htmltext of word theLastWd + 1 \
>       to (the number of words in fld 1) of fld 1
>   delete word theLastWd + 1 to (the number of words in fld 1) of fld 1
> end splitText
>
> If you need more columns, just take what's in field 2 and repeat the 
> process, putting the results into fld 3, and so forth.
>
> The fields can't have much extra white space at the bottom; set the 
> height to just barely more than the last line and set the margins to 
> almost nothing. Otherwise the click command won't select in the 
> correct place. Alternately, you can increase the 5 pixel adjustment to 
> account for extra white space at the bottom of the field.
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
$



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