You can use a custom buffered writer that would count output lines and insert the appropriate headers.
Claude On lun., 2009-06-22 at 17:41 +0200, Petermair Patrick wrote: > Hi! > > We are using Velocity to create some reports that will be printed out. One > report gets a list of customers and prints some data about them. I¹m now > faced with the problem of writing a page header at the beginning of every > page (that gets printed out). Something like: > > ³Page 23² > > and so on... Is there any support in Velocity to print some kind of header > after a fixed amount of lines? I know how many lines a page can hold. The > data per customer isn¹t static so I don¹t know how many lines each customer > will take. So basically my textfile would look like this: > > Page 1 > <some data> > <more data> > Page 2 > <some more data> > Page 3 > <even more data> > <still more data> > <more more data> > Page 4 > ... > > Without the header I would simply output every customer in a ³for each² > loop. But I need to tell Velocity somehow that it needs to print an extra > line with some header data after every 80th line (for example). > > I was going through the documentation but I couldn¹t find anything that > would help me do this ... any ideas? > > Thanks, > Patrick > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
