Hi Bill, Not much enlightenment here - I played with Publish a while ago but have never used it in anger. However I noticed (and fixed) a number of syntax errors on the wiki pages for Publish that were preventing it from showing all the info that is there. Perhaps that will help... Ric
> From: Bill Harris > > I'm having trouble figuring out the language expected by format/publish > to > control styles. I see a few examples such as > FONTP=: 'sans 10 bold' > ALIGNV=: 'top' > MARGIN=: 10 20 10 15 > > at http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Publish/Styles, but I'm having > trouble > seeing how to extend these. I checked the list archives but didn't see > anything. > > For example, is there a listing of all the various upper-case nouns > that I > can set and the values to which they can be set? Are there other > examples > showing how to apply those styles other than demo and demo1? How can I > find that out? > > I do see a list starting with > > defineindex'' > BOLD > ITALIC > ) > > and ending with the definition of opts about 50-60 lines later, but > it's > not telling me, for example, how I might set a landscape format except > for > the tempting existence of PORT and LAND, but I don't quite know what to > do > with them. > > Thanks, > > Bill > > PS: reportlab looks tempting, too, but it seems a shame to leave the J > idiom for this, unless there's a reportlab interface to J. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
