On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Richard Gaskin
wrote:
> Hello World
That gets back to parsing backwards from the point of insertion, I think .
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Scott Rossi wrote:
I probably don't understand the scope of the problem, but barring the use
of wordOffset (am guessing some of your strings are multiple words),
perhaps you could use htmlText with custom tags, i.e. Sept 10,
2015 and render the text as htmlText. In theory, the tags
won't be sho
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 5:34 PM, J. Landman Gay
wrote:
> I can't think of anything elegant offhand. What popped into my head was a
> "madlibs" approach where you put up a dialog requesting the various data
> items and save the responses. Not pretty.
>
I'm partway there.
I parse each input line
I probably don't understand the scope of the problem, but barring the use
of wordOffset (am guessing some of your strings are multiple words),
perhaps you could use htmlText with custom tags, i.e. Sept 10,
2015 and render the text as htmlText. In theory, the tags
won't be shown to the user, but wi
On 10/10/2015 10:28 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 8:21 AM, J. Landman Gay
wrote:
This sounds like a job for the merge command.
thanks,but that's a one-way trip. If the user changes something, I need to
know which piece, as it shows up elsewhere. (And, potentially the use
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 8:21 AM, J. Landman Gay
wrote:
>
> This sounds like a job for the merge command.
>
>
thanks,but that's a one-way trip. If the user changes something, I need to
know which piece, as it shows up elsewhere. (And, potentially the user
could change the base text, too, which
On October 10, 2015 9:58:13 AM CDT, "Dr. Hawkins" wrote:
>
>I am now getting to motions, which will use data much like mail-merge
>in a
>word processor. So I might use something like
>
>Debtor ##dname## filed this petition on ##petdate##
>
>
>to generate
>
>
>Debtor John Doe filed this petitio
It has also occurred to me to wrap in an html tag or some such to do this.
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> Most of what I generate is forms, so keeping track of fields is easy and
> natural.
>
> I am now getting to motions, which will use data much like mail-merge in a
> w
Most of what I generate is forms, so keeping track of fields is easy and
natural.
I am now getting to motions, which will use data much like mail-merge in a
word processor. So I might use something like
Debtor ##dname## filed this petition on ##petdate##
to generate
Debtor John Doe filed th
