Multicolumn Printing (Text Flow)?

Frank D. Engel, Jr. fde101 at fjrhome.net
Tue Nov 16 16:04:52 EST 2004


Actually, it does make a difference: sometimes a "half line" of text 
shows up at the bottom of a field...

On Nov 16, 2004, at 3:04 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 11/16/04 1:49 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
>
>> Yep, unchecking "Visible" in the properties box does not keep the 
>> "click" command from working.  Excellent.
>> And thank you, this is much better than what I was doing before.
>> BTW, a minor speed enhancement:
>>>>> 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
>> place a line before this like:
>> put the number of words in fld 1 into wcnt
>> then replace "then number of words in fld 1" in both lines with wcnt
>> That way, it doesn't have to count them all twice.
>
> Good point. For that matter, unless you are working with huge chunks 
> of text that would eat up memory, you could also skip the line that 
> deletes the unseen text out of the fields. Since printing will ignore 
> it, the hidden text won't matter and it would save another line of 
> script calculation.
>
> -- 
> 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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