Re: Soft coding Printer File Attributes

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 22 April 2002 8:49 pm, MWalter@hanoverwire.com wrote:
> I determined that is what's going on. I looked at some of the raw files
> in QSPL and saw the overstrike.  Oh well. I thought it was worth a
> shot. My problem is I'd like to highlight a couple of words within a
> large message field on the output. I guess I'll have to split it up.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark

Hi Mark

The print routine for documents in my DBG utilities has to do this. As
the documents may include various display attributes for
colour/hightlight anywhere in the text etc., I can't set up the printer
file in advance. I just use the technique mentioned by others - if a
section of text is underlined I print the text, then write an equivalent
length of underscores to a record format that has spaceb(0). Highlight is
done by writing to that format with just the highlighted text. Write it
twice for underlined bold text. Only thing is I have (yet) figured out
how to print coloured text ;-). Have a look at the code in DBG015R4 in
ALLSRCMBRS in the download file - http://www.dbg400.net/dbg400.html

Regards, Martin
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