Karen I do my bold and underlined stuff in the reporting program I do sorting and calculation in SQL when I collect the data I put blank lines in the temp table I even calculate breakpoint sums and put breakpointrows in the table. Page header and footer I do in reports. My breakpoint rows can be handled witin my temptable design but I need some extra colums that sometimes are filled with blank and sometimes with vaules. I also make sure that my sorting values are represented in the temp table, that way I can the remaining formatting in reports. I used to have a table in my database called laser (containing values for bold and different styles of lines and such) that where useful in old 2.11 upto 4.5 days. In 6.5++ I do not use it any longer since rbase options seems good enough Hope it is of some value for you even if I could not tell how to embed bold and bold off Gunnar -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of tellef Sent: den 12 februari 2003 14:37 To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Pagemode in Windows
Gunnar: Yeah, I was hoping to use a temporary table too. This report consists of data from about 6 different tables. The problem is that some of the data is underlined, some is boldfaced (don't know how I could embed that in the data). There's about 4 different places where data is in a tabular format (all different levels of indenting). It's really like a letter with alot of text, in an indexed format with section numbers, with embedded tables of data. Handled nicely now in DOS with multiple reports printed one after another into one report. If you put data into a temp table, do you even put in blank rows and print it all as one detail line? How could you handle changes in formatting in the rows? Since I have to do tables, and some of the data might be longer than one row in the tabbed table, there'd be alot of calculatin' going on to figure out where it would continue in the next row! Like PAGEMODE would do! This is the single most complicated report I've seen in my 17 years of RBase programming! And it's hard to tell a client that something done so easily in DOS 'can't' be done in Windows! Karen >Not directly an answer to your question, But I myself has stopped using Pagemode. Instead I do most of my complicated stuff in SQL and inserting the result in a temp table that corresponds to my reporting requirement, then I report from The temp table. This gives me the same flexibility and power as pagemode and very simple reporting. <
