Karen, I have the same report problem and Razzak suggested I build my paragraphs to include column values from my driving table in a command file before printing the report, as an alternative to designing in PAGEMODE. --Lookup and setup all the variables from the tables you need to print your report from. SELECT begindate, enddate INTO vbegin IND v1, vend IND v2 FROM tableview WHERE ... --Assign the text variables (I assign v variables that are CLEA VAR v% at the end of the command file). Variable can be defined as NOTE if it contains a large amount of text. SET VAR vtext1 TEXT = 'This story begins on' SET VAR vtext2 TEXT = 'and will finish on' --Concatenate the whole sentence/paragraph into another variable (x variable in my example). SET VAR xparagraph1 TEXT = (.vtext1+' '+(.vbegin)+' '+.vtext2+' '+(.vend)+'.') --Note: ALT0254 can be added at the end of the variable definition before the last close parenthesis if the paragraph needs to be followed by a carriage return/line feed. --This is the variable that you place on your report. Note: You need to run your command file before designing the report for the x variables to be available to the report designer. --For title text that needs formatting font/bold/italic), place a text field on the report itself followed by the sentence/paragraph variable.
So far I haven't figured out how to bold or italicize a single word or embed apostrophes in the text variables. Hope this helps. Claudine :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of tellef Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:48 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Pagemode in Windows Buddy: I brought up two of your reports -- very cool looking! And I can visualize how you were able to do this, with breaking on a course ID, filling in the columns for instructors, having multiple rows of data for each course ID, nice separators between each section. My report, though, would be nothing like that. It's mostly paragraphs of text, with embedded tables of data. My temporary table would probably have to be just ONE long text column wide and I would have to space the tabular stuff myself. I see alot of calculating to be done if one column's value goes into multiple lines. And again, I don't think I have the ability to making some things bold, some italics, within the temp table. Karen
