On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There is a paper called IPDS and SCS Technical Reference: > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/prsys/pdfs/54453124.pdf > On page 203 there is an explanation whether portrait or > landscape mode has to be used. To decide this, the Page width > and length is calculated as follows: > > Characters per line (MPP) > Physical Page Width = ---------------------------- > (in inches) Font pitch > (characters per inch, CPI) > > Lines per page (MPL) > Physical Page Length = -------------------- > (in inches) Lines per inch (LPI) > > > If you always use the same Font and ignore Font commands > (like SCD, SFG), this should be easy.
Here is why I don't really like this approach: What if you never have any lines that stretch across the entire width of the page? Same goes for the number of lines and the page length. If we use the method above then the longest line on the page (or document) will go all the way across the page, no matter what. Is it really supposed to? Maybe so, maybe not. That's why there is... > Remember that some commands (like SPPS and SHM/SVM) use inch-based > parameters and rely on correct font pitch. They have to be ignored too. SPPS tells us the page size! This is independant of the length or number of any lines. It makes the printout accurate to what the author intended. Now Scott found a case where SPPS is not specified. I am going to look if SHM/SVM are (and what they are - we don't do anything with them). James Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ This is the Linux 5250 Development Project (LINUX5250) mailing list To post a message email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/linux5250 or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250.
