Re: 4gl reports

On Thu, 07 May 1998 12:48:58 -0500, Amy Cotter <amy_cotter@administaff.com> wrote: >I'm working on a project that requires reports that are generated using >Informix 4gl (AIX) to print using user selectable fonts, point sizes, >compression, orientation, etc ... >Is there an easier way of doing this? We are currently working with >printer specific PCL embedded in 4gl code. Try looking at Troff using tbl. It works well for producing very large tables, without the hassle of working out column widths, etc. We are currently using the Groff package. A good reference on this can be found in a book called "Typesetting Tables on the Unix System" by Henry McGilton & Mary McNabb. Graham Smith gqs @ zip . com . au