Re: Wordwrap in ACE

>From: brb%sandoz@vishnu.ueci.com (Bryan Brewer) >Subject: Wordwrap in ACE >Date: Wed, 18 May 94 12:16:31 CUT >X-Informix-List-Id: <list.3969> > The problem is that we use landscape format for some of our reports but > no matter what value I specify for the right margin in the OUTPUT > section, [ or ] in the format section ("print column 150, ldesc > WORDWRAP RIGHT MARGIN 185"), I get the following error message: > "The specified WORDWRAP RIGHT MARGIN value is out of range. > With a piece of A4 paper, printed in landscape, one has 185 printable > columns. I ALWAYS get that error unless I set the right margin less > than 127 columns, and adjust the report accordingly so that the current > column at the time of formatting is < 127. > According to Jonathan Leffler's book, "Using INFORMIX-SQL", page 147-8, > "the only time in a formatted report that the value of the RIGHT MARGIN > is significant" is when one uses the WORDWRAP command. I need to find > out why the computer refuses to acknowledge my RIGHT MARGIN > specification in the OUTPUT section as a legitimate right margin. You don't say what version of the software you're using, but I assume it is not 4.12 (probably 4.10 or 4.11) as we fixed bug B13952 in version 4.12. B13952: SETTING WORDWRAP RIGHT MARGIN > 127 GIVE 8121, EVEN IF RM > WRM Basically, there was some code which said, in effect: if the right margin is greater than 127, the programmers cannot mean what they said, so let's generate an error. This annoyed people like yourself who said exactly what they meant to say. The value 127 figures in the problem because it is the default right margin minus the default left margin. The calculation was wrong -- the correct value should have been 132, even assuming that what was being attempted was correct, which it wasn't. My statement in my book was correct; it just didn't take into account a bug I wasn't aware of when I wrote it. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>