david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (David Kaufmann) (02/16/91)
I've got an address stack that has each item (title, firstname, lastname, street, city, state, zip) in a separate field. When I print labels (finally got that to work, thanks to Michale Freedburg), there's a lot of empty space between fields. I'd like to get a more polished, letter-like look. Since the purpose of the separate fields was for sorting and selecting, and I can now do that with mark, I'd like to either a) combine all the field data into one field (with 3 lines in the field for when labels are printed) or print labels as they are with spaces between eliminated during printing. Anyone with a stack/script to do either, or some suggestion, I'd appreciate receiving by e-mail. Thanks again in advance. David Kaufmann INTERNET: david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu
yossie@fnal.fnal.gov (Yossie Silverman) (02/20/91)
In article <6167@rex.cs.tulane.edu> david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (David Kaufmann) writes: > I've got an address stack that has each item (title, firstname, > lastname, street, city, state, zip) in a separate field. When I print > labels (finally got that to work, thanks to Michale Freedburg), > there's a lot of empty space between fields. I'd like to get a more > polished, letter-like look. Since the purpose of the separate fields > was for sorting and selecting, and I can now do that with mark, I'd > like to either a) combine all the field data into one field (with 3 > lines in the field for when labels are printed) or print labels as > they are with spaces between eliminated during printing. as far as I can tell, you can include any hypercard statement that generates a string of text into the item description in the 'print report' item definition dialog. What you need in your case is a single full label width item which is defined as: field "first name" && field "last name" and then more multi-line fields which define the rest. It's not hard, and works as far as I can tell. Cheers - Yossie --- yossie@fnal.fnal.gov; yossie@fnccf.bitnet What did the Caspian Sea? - Saki