Re: Special char printing

In article <2h4dqjINN2jm@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>, Con Woodall <cwoodall@vth1.vth.colostate.edu> wrote: >4gl report writing under unix-special printing to HP deskjet 500 (or >probably any other printer). ...stuff deleted... >Using 4gl output commands of > print column 11, String 1, > column 71, String_2 We have several reports in which we use embedded escapes that work great. (We print mainly to HP Laserjets series II or greater.) I don't know what your String_1 looks like, but the way we do it is as follows: print column 11, "Such and such ", print ASCII 27, "(S3b", { Bold on } print column 41, "on and on.", print ASCII 27, "(S0b" { Bold off } These escape sequinces may or may not coorespond to actual sequences, but proceding in this fashion has worked for us. I would hazzard a guess that Informix looses count of the number of columns when the font is manipulated, thus that would account for it working is this senerio using 4 print statements instead of just 1. Could someone else confirm or disprove this? Of course it could always be the platform. (Dec 5100, Ultrix 4.2, I4gl 4.0) -Todd bernha@david.wheaton.edu >-- >Con Woodall Colorado St. U.; Veterinary Teaching Hospital; Ft. Collins >CO 80523; 303-491-1244 FAX 303-491-4414 cwoodall@vth1.vth.colostate.edu >Opinions not nec. employer's, but mine might be right. Then again... >--