I'm putting all my comments into one email below the generous responses that have been coming so far!
Karen >And then there are reports, such as those where I need to display >maintenance work done on roadways features, obviously the work they do >(detail) is different not only on the parameter types but also in the >number, in addition, the user sometimes wants some parameters highlighted >(bold) for bridges and different ones for signs. PAGEMODE is ideal for this >situation, where trying to change the format within a detail line may not be >feasible or possible. >Javier That's exactly my problem, Javier! I could probably do a temp table, but I need some paragraphs boldfaced, some not, sometimes words in the middle of a sentence boldfaced... >Is it not practical to leave the DOS version of RBase installed and >use it to print this report? I'd imagine you could even zip to it from >RBW. >Ben Petersen In my mind -- YES! In their mind? Not sure! Can I zip to a DOS report from within RBWin? Has anyone done this? That would be pretty cool! >If you are running Windows R:Base, the best thing I've found is to do is this: > 1. Leave all your code in place, but instead of fooling around >with headers, footers, etc., and writing to the file, create a temporary >table and insert rows to that table containing the data (detail) lines of >the report. > 2. Now build a Windows report based on the temporary table with >all the formatting your heart desires. >This solution retains the logic in your PAGEMODE report while taking >advantage of the Windows formatting. >Emmitt Dove I don't have a PAGEMODE report. I have a bunch of DOS reports printed one after another (about 8 of them I think). See response to Javier about the one problem with using a temp table (formatting). > What I have done was zip out to a bat file > The bat file would consist of just 1 line > TYPE pagemodereport.txt > LPT1 >Buddy This does work, but I lose any formatting variables that I put in the file (I do see the formatting characters in the file). when I print the file to the printer
