gcbrowni@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Grover C. Browning) (05/30/91)
I have been thinking about this small Paradox problem for some time now, and have yet to come up with a good solution. Here, at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, we have a fairly large DBase containing, amoung other things, Lists of Graduate students and their Thesis titles, and a list of experiments. In the course of converting this Dbase(III) to Paradox, I ran into the following problem: How to get an extended Greek character set, superscripts, subscripts, and logical notation(such as the implies symbol) into the data field. As it exists in Dbase, the title of an experiment may be something like: 200-MeV Proton Elastic Scattering from Carbon 12 and Cadmium 40. Now, the way *I* would like it is, instead of Carbon 12--superscript 12 Carbon. Is it possible to include data like that in a Paradox field? I am not really interested in something that looks pretty on-screen, what I would really like is for it to show up as a superscript 12 Carbon on the reports we generate from the data. I toyed around for awhile with the idea of printer setup string as keyboard macros, but, is there an easier way? Grover Browning Programmer/Technician Indiana University Cyclotron Facility and Nuclear Theory Center gcbrowni@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu gcbrowni@venus.iucf.indiana.edu
gribble@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (05/30/91)
You might want to check out Desktop available from Kallista, Inc. 312-663-0101. One of its several features is an enhanced report editor: which includes Automatic insertion of control codes and the ability to enter foreign, graphic, and special characters. -- ************************************************************************** * Steve Gribble (812) 855-9172/7629 gribble@cica.cica.indiana.edu * Systems Manager, Inst. of Social Research swg@socmail.soc.indiana.edu * Dept. of Sociology, Indiana University gribble@iubacs
dhosek@freke.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (05/31/91)
In article <gribble.675618997@ogre>, gribble@ogre.cica.indiana.edu writes: > You might want to check out Desktop available from > Kallista, Inc. 312-663-0101. One of its several features is an > enhanced report editor: which includes Automatic insertion of control codes > and the ability to enter foreign, graphic, and special characters. Or better yet, you could look into TeX or some other command-driven text formatter. This allows one to get the highest quality typesetting from database output. I'm currently involved in a project where Oracle is producing high-quality bottle labels (with Japanese text and occasional Greek letters) and I also produce an article listing TeX output drivers using Paradox. Even the dumbest database program can produce amazing output under these circumstances. -dh Don Hosek dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu Quixote Digital Typography 714-625-0147
byock@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Bill Yock) (06/01/91)
From article <1991May30.144848.10233@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, by gcbrowni@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Grover C. Browning): > > I have been thinking about this small Paradox problem for some time > now, and have yet to come up with a good solution. > > Here, at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, we have a fairly > large DBase containing, amoung other things, Lists of Graduate students > and their Thesis titles, and a list of experiments. In the course of > converting this Dbase(III) to Paradox, I ran into the following problem: > How to get an extended Greek character set, superscripts, subscripts, and > logical notation(such as the implies symbol) into the data field. As it > exists in Dbase, the title of an experiment may be something like: 200-MeV > Proton Elastic Scattering from Carbon 12 and Cadmium 40. Now, the way *I* > would like it is, instead of Carbon 12--superscript 12 Carbon. > Is it possible to include data like that in a Paradox field? I am not > really interested in something that looks pretty on-screen, what I would > really like is for it to show up as a superscript 12 Carbon on the reports > we generate from the data. I toyed around for awhile with the idea of > printer setup string as keyboard macros, but, is there an easier way? > You can enter any of the extended ascii characters into a field simply by holding down the Alt key and typing the 3 digit ascii code for that character. To be able to print these characters you must have a printer font that can handle them. To do more elaborate formatting you will probably want to use a word processor. If your word processor can handle different character sets you might want to place alias symbols in the Paradox data, export the data, and then do a search and replace to enter the character you really need. To do subscript and superscripting you could try inserting vertical tab printer control codes but it would probably be easier to do them with a word processor. -- Bill Yock, Weeg Computing Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 byock@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu