You can't do that

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Asman" <jlasman at telus.net>
To: <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: You can't do that


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>
> --------------- Original Message ---------------
> At 08:33P Tue Aug 30 2005, Brian K. White wrote:
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>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jim Asman" <jlasman at telus.net>
>> To: <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 7:05 PM
>> Subject: Re: You can't do that
>>
>>
>> > --------------- Original Message ---------------
>> > At 02:41P Tue Aug 30 2005, Jeff Harrison wrote:
>> >
>> >> Here are some things that I never found a good way to
>> >> do using filepro.  Please prove me wrong if you can.
>> >>
>> >> Say that I have "remove unwanted blank lines" checked
>> >> off on my output format, but I want to conditionally
>> >> force a blank line based on some logic in my code.  I
>> >> have a couple of ways that I have used to do this, but
>> >> none of them are really "good" i.e. easy to use,
>> >> generic, portable, and intrinsic to filepro.
>> >>
>> >> Here is what I have used for this in the past:
>> >>
>> >> A.  Use a dummy field that you populate with a
>> >> character that does not print on the given printer.
>> >> (Of course you can't use the space character for this
>> >> because filepro assumes this would be an unwanted
>> >> blank line.) - this solution is printer dependent.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Conditionally populate a variable with chr("13") !
>>
>> Then filepro gets out of touch with reality and puts page breaks and new
>> page headers and grand totals in the middles of pages.
>>
>
> Huh?
>
> No LF has been added?
>
> I've NEVER had such maladies!!!

Indeed?
I never tried it so I apologize and retract the comment.
Nice trick.

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