How to write 4GL reports which could be read by Word and contains attributes like different pitches, bold letters etc

Hello, has anyone experience in writing "non ASCII" reports in 4GL. I need to use some simple attributes like different pitch sizes, bold, underlined etc. These reports should be readable and modifiable by Word users. I thought about writing RTF files but i´m not sure about how complex RTF is. Can i find a RTF reference somewhere in the Web. Or maybe i should write html and our people use Frontpage to show and modify the doc´s. I just need some good idea. Greetings, Joerg

Joerg Spilker wrote: > Hello, > > has anyone experience in writing "non ASCII" reports in 4GL. I need to > use some simple attributes like different pitch sizes, bold, underlined > etc. These reports should be readable and modifiable by Word users. I > thought about writing RTF files but i´m not sure about how complex RTF > is. Can i find a RTF reference somewhere in the Web. Or maybe i should > write html and our people use Frontpage to show and modify the doc´s. I > just need some good idea. > > Greetings, Joerg You can try Arachne, it would create an HTML reports with no need to change any code. The HTML report would conform to a template (config file) which you can modify as you wish. An example of such a report can be seen on: (follow the path by clicking) http://www.querix.com/ Online Demos Arachne Arachne Web Technology Report Demo -- Compliments of QueriX -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QueriX 4GL Compilers are Informix 4GL Compatible, and Connection to other RDBMS such as Oracle. Hydra 4GL Compiler (Compatible with I4GL) Compile once, run everywhere Phoenix Windows GUI. (Front End to 4GL) Chimera Java GUI The only GUI you will ever need... (Front End to 4GL) Arachne Web Technology (Front End to 4GL on the Web & HTML Report Generator) ESQL/C Compiler For more details visit: http://www.querix.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------