Hi Victor,

mmm... problematic....  When you create a hybrid of data types in a field
you can run into problems. If I am working with HTML/XML then I treat Memo
fields (format AxAz) as HTML/XML without any DP bold or italics/underline.
The ;;W handles the DP text attributes well if you do not have any other
HTML code. I am presuming that you have other HTML tags and the opening and
closing < > are being converted to their entities and coming out as literal
text rather than tags. If so and the bold and italics aren't not crucial
then I think I would be outputting without the ;;W print format, and losing
these attributes. I have not ever really worked with the DP bold and
underline, so I am unsure whether it is possible to search for this DP
markup. I suspect not.

Not sure where that leave you... 

Good luck
Brian




-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Victor Warner
Sent: Saturday, 4 December 2010 11:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Reproducing "<" and ">" in a report field with ;;W

  Brian,

Thank you for the reply. I do want the conversion of entries such as 
those you mention (as well as bold and italic to their html 
equivalents). However as text also appear "<" and ">" and wonder if it 
is possible for them to appear "as is".

Victor Warner

On 03/12/2010 14:15, Brian Hancock wrote:
> The purpose of the ;;W is to do this conversion of entities,&  <  >  ' "
to
> &amp;&lt;&gt;&apos;&quot;   If you do not need this do not use the ;;W
>
> If you are outputting HTML or XML then you should not normally be using
> these bare characters. You might however have say Javascript code that you
> are embedding in HTML and then you should wrap up this data in a CDATA
> section.
>
> Regards
> Brian
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Victor Warner
> Sent: Friday, 3 December 2010 10:47 PM
> To: Dataperfect Users Discussion Group
> Subject: [Dataperf] Reproducing "<" and">" in a report field with ;;W
>
>    I have entered into a field "<" and">".
>
> When printing the report to text, the field which contains the above
> date, I have formatted them with ;;W
>
> The resulting file replaces the "<" and">" with"&lt;" and "&gt;". Is
> there a way of getting the "<" and">" to produce as entered?
>
>
> Any help with this would be much appreciated.
>
> Victor Warner
>
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