(as a new user, I've had a bit of a look on the archives, and the thread on revPrintText is so long there clearly are many requests for extension of its feature set, no doubt including the following...)
I want to be able to print the contents of a formatted field, with column data, above which is a header which is longer than one cell of the column data. The header itself uses styled text and I'd like it to have columns too, tho' I can probably simulate that since its text won't vary much. The data is constructed dynamically from other information in the stack. The printout fills out a whole page, larger than a card size, so print card won't suffice. I'd prefer not to have vertical lines separating the columns of data, but I can live with that.
I could do this if any of the following things worked, each of which should IMO be possible
1. I could do it all with revPrintField using a Table field, putting the header stuff into the first few lines, IF I could suppress printing of the vGrid lines, which overprint the header. Because vGrid is overloaded (it flags that the field is a table AND draws the grid lines), and borderFill is also overloaded (controls the field border AND the grid lines BUT does not respond to width 0 for the grid lines!) this won't work. Ideally of course the display style of each cell ought to controllable as in a real spreadsheet, but I can wait for that (Rev version 3?).
2. I could do it with revPrintField if only it supported a header parameter a la revPrintText (why doesn't it?)
3. I could do it with revPrintText using html styling if only more mark-up tags were supported (tabs)
4. I could do it if multiple revPrintField and revPrintText could be used on a single page, ie they conformed to to an open printing/close printing protocol.
Am I missing something?
The only work-around I can think of is to use monospaced type for the column data. This is really ugly.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Neville Smythe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mathematical Sciences Institute Tel: 61-2-6125-2709
Australian National University Fax: 61-2-6125-4984
Canberra ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA Mob: 0414517719
_______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
