G'day Alastair,
At 11:11 AM 26/11/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>Thank you, Tom, Dick, Razzak & Konstantin.
No worries mate!
>What I have been doing to expand a section is dragging the lowest section
>line down, then dragging the next lowest, etc., and letting R:Base "push"
>the fields down at the same time. Is this a bad idea?
No, I use that technique too.
>One of the things I am doing is writing my R:Base reports to produce HTML
>code so I have a relatively large number of text fields containing HTML
>tags, etc., and a relatively small number of columns or variables which
>form part of an HTML table when the report is produced. I have been
>placing all the fields as close together as possible so that I don't get
>blank lines in what is meant to be a text file that comes out of R:Base.
>It is this text file that I cannot get to work although it can be printed
>to the screen. I
>haven't tried printing to my printer as it will be useless to me but I
>could try a page or two I suppose.
If you have tested what you are doing and
it works OK, great. If you haven't output
the result to a text file yet, do so as soon
as possible. Reason being, if you are using
a proportional font you will most likely not
get the result you are wanting.
The two ways I know to get the desired result
from R:BASE for Win to a text file from the
report writer are to use the fixed fonts (not
done that personally so can't comment on it)
and setting a variable to the concatenated
result of all the text and variable and column
values you want on the same line.
Eg. vLine1 = ('<html><head><bold>This is the report for ' + .vRptName)
Keep in mind the 160 char limit for formulae so
you may need to set a var to a text value and
use the var rather than the text in the Line var.
Warmest regards,
Tom Grimshaw
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