Re: Fancy Report Output in 4GL

Sebastian v. Bomhard (svb@Space.NET) wrote: : Don't scream if you read this: Drawing lines and boxes is not a job for : database programmers. I use what is there: tbl and troff (actually groff). : There is all you need, and portable between printers, too (Ok, not very : many printers, I have to admit). : I'm doing almost all the postprocessing that way, and my reports deliver : troff source output. : It might help ;-) : Regards, : -svb. I used tyo think this until several customers offered big $$$ for the capability or threatend to look for other softare if I couldn't produce reports that looked like they were comming from a word processor. Ther easiest way I've found short of writing the same report many times for many printers is to set up a table with all of the capabilities of a particular printer in one record. One record per printer means you simply need to know which printer you're printing to and thgen send the appropriate codes to get what you want. Nothing worthwhile is easy. This is definately not easy. -- gburnore@garys.arasmith.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- How you look depends on where you go. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | '۳''''''۳''''''''''''' Gary L. Burnore | '۳''''''۳''''''''''''' Director, Programming & Development | '۳''''''۳''''''''''''' Myers Information Systems, Inc. | '۳ 3 4 1 4 2 ''' 6 9 0 6 9 ''' | Official Proof of Purchase ==========================================================================