Clarion in general: Constructing simple RTF text 2005-02-02 -- Nick Coe Newsgroups: comp.lang.clarion,softvelocity.public.clarion6
>>> Anyone know if its possible to place a page break in a
>>> C6.1 RTF
>>> Control, and obviously have this work when pring the RTF
>>> Control on
>>> a report?
>> Save the heartache.
>> Get RichReport Extension - I use it to print multi page
>> RTFs - both
>> in CPCS
>> and standard Clarion reports - pages flow without any
>> problem -
>> don't have to think about page breaks - etc. BTW - would
>> be hard
>> for you to figure out
>> where you want the page breaks to be - the RTF format
>> allows all
>> kinds of stuff (like bold, bold italic) which means that
>> simple
>> calculations of where you think the line break ought to
>> be won't
>> work. Check out Clarion COnnection for RichReport.
> Thats why I liked the idea of {{/rtf1/page}, I can replace
> a token at
> runtime with this then, so the user has control, but
> Clarion takes no
> notice of it on a report. And I cant see that RichReport
> would help
> here neither :(
I doubt whether it'll make much difference since it works in
Word, but the rtf spec requires \ not / and you really only
need \rtf or \rtf1 right at the very beginning of the rtf
stream after the first {. When I developed AccHelp I did a
fair bit of research into RTF's to produce endnoted rtf's
for input to the winhelp compiler- One of the simplest files
I made by hand with TextPad (it's well spread out to make it
more human readable):-
{\rtf\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss Helv;}{\f1\froman Tms
Rmn;}}
\sectd \pard\plain \fet1\aenddoc{\super
#
{\footnote\ftnalt \pard\plain \fs20{\super
#
}{
100
}}\pard\plain
OVERVIEW
\par
Written by hand with TextPad.
}\page{\super
#
{\footnote\ftnalt \pard\plain \fs20{\super
#
}{
200
}}\pard\plain
DETAIL\par
TextPad was used to manually create this endnoted Rich Text
File
}}
Note the \page just after the close of the text Written by
hand with TextPad}
Haven't tried it in a RichTextControl yet but I'm heading
that way because I'll use a similar method for subscript
\sub and superscript \super.
Word actually inserts \par\page if you do a hard page
(Ctrl-Enter) I think the \par (new paragraph) is redundant
just like the vast bulk of crap Word puts into rtf's.
--
Nick Coe (UK)
AccHelp v1.01 Access Application Help File Builder
http://www.alphacos.co.uk/
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