benh@pnet01.cts.com (B. Humphreys) (08/23/88)
1. How can the Sprint status line be customized? For example, a running
count of all "{" versus all "}" present on the status line would be
neat. It seems the status line format is hard coded in SP.EXE.
2. How does one tell the Sprint formatter to print a page number on page 1?
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+-In article <3356@crash.cts.com>, benh@pnet01.cts.com (B. Humphreys) wrote:- +---------- | | 1. How can the Sprint status line be customized? For example, a running | count of all "{" versus all "}" present on the status line would be | neat. It seems the status line format is hard coded in SP.EXE. | +---------- Sprint has oodles of commands to change the status line; in fact, this was the largest change in the Editor Macro Language that occured between Final Word II and Sprint. (FW II had no reason to change the status line; Sprint does, so it can "look" like other word processors.) However, just because this is _available_ doesn't mean it's _easy_. You should learn the editor macro language quite a bit before you start messing with things such as the status line. If you are really REALLY interested, I can give you some pointers (for instance, I have a block of code that takes the "Col" flag on the status line and substitutes in the month/day). If you really do want to have "{" and "}" counting, I would suggest the following: Use the mode line (not the status line) to display the count. This is a second status line (the one used for Key Record), which you can write things on with the command mode "string" "string" ... You turn on the mode line with 2->statusline. Redefine the '{' and '}' keys to a) insert the respective character ('{' put, etc.) and also increment and decrement a counter, which you display on the mode line. +---------- | 2. How does one tell the Sprint formatter to print a page number on page 1? +---------- There are special page header and page footer commands for the first page. Unfortunately they are not terribly mneumonic, and I don't remember them. If they really REALLY aren't documented, mail me at my work address and I'll get 'em to ya. My work address is !ucbvax!sun!acad!metaware!funkster +---------- | UUCP: {cbosgd hplabs!hp-sdd sdcsvax nosc}!crash!pnet01!benh | ARPA: crash!pnet01!benh@nosc.mil | INET: benh@pnet01.cts.com | +---------- -- /|\ /|\ .. . . . . . . . . . . | |\| |\| .. . . . . . . . . . . |/|\|/|\|/|| _ _ _ _ |_| _ _ |_ -__ _ _ARPA: lupin3@ucscb.ucsc.EDU | |/| |/|L_ (_\( ( (_/ | |(_\_) (_ || )(_)_)UUCP: *!ucbvax!ucscc!ucscb!lupin3 \|/ \|/ larry / hastings _/ BITNET: lupin3@ucscb@ucscc.BITNET MetaWare Inc. Durable Software, Constructed Automatically "Not much fun in Disclaimer:[MetaWare, UCSC]->opinion != lhastings->opinion Stalingrad, no."