Re: 132 column printer static output

[Al Mac <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

When programming in RPG, we specify ending position of the text.

Depending on the varying widths of the static output, you might consider a 
table / array at the end of the program, listing standard phrases.  For the 
RPG output you use labels like TEXT,7 or TEX,77 so you also need good 
naming for the arrays, or move the TEX,77 to an appropriately named field, 
then output that.

I also have some programs with a DO LOOP to output TEX,T where T is the 
index and it is printing vertical lines of the text from the array, and 
depending on the current "T" value, also print other stuff sideways.

In RPG, you are limited to like 24 characters sideways when specifying 
text, which can be a nuisance constructing longer phrases and getting them 
to line up perfect.  With tables & arrays defined at the end of the 
program, you can do the text up to 79 long.

Using a PF is the way to go if in a later revision you want to be able to 
provide the same text but in a different human language. ... substitute 
different PF or MEMBER with rest of addressing the same for each language.

Programming in DDS can be more cumbersome than RPG.

I wonder if SDA could be used for this.  Screens can be up to 132 wide, 
although the depth not as great as most reports.

In SDA you have full screen where you layout your text and fields.
Granted this is for a screen rather than some other DDS format, but the 
coding is not that much different for screen, file, report ... perhaps you 
could layout your report using SDA as if it was a screen, get the DDS code 
from that, then change it to a file.

I have not used it, but there is something called RLU which I believe is 
intended for making reports.

> This is another of those simple questions that probably has an elegant
> answer that I have never thought of.
>
> I have a 50 row, 132 column form with a lot of static text.
>
> Specifying the static text is cumbersome since I can not figure out a way to
> program the 132 column fields in an easily editable manner.  Is there a full
> screen editor that allows me to display the text as I want it?  You guys
> must have solved this a long time ago.
>
> Does this question make sense?
>
>
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> Booth Martin
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