Color Printing problem

[Kenneth Brody]

On 2/15/2017 9:03 PM, Jim Asman via Filepro-list wrote:
> At 10:25P Wed Feb 15 2017, Richard Kreiss wrote:

I haven't seen the original, so I'm replying to this reply...

> Much clipped...
>>
>> 2.      I am using the following programming to change the color from black
> to
>> red but it doesn't work.  The field is either blanked or still prints black.
>>
>> ::Ec(1,*,g)=chr("27")
>> ::Am(len(5),edit(5))=5
>> : 5 lt ".00":qq(8,rj)=ec{"*r-3u"<ec{"v6S{am{ec{"r1u"{ec"*v1S" (using the
>> HP-2500 print table
>> : 5 lt ".00":qq(8,rj)=ec{*v12S{am{ec{"v1S" (using the HP-8xx print table
>>
>> In both cases I don't get the negative number in red.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
[...]

How do you expect to fit

     ec{"*r-3u"<ec{"v6S{am{ec{"r1u"{ec"*v1S"
or
     ec{*v12S{am{ec{"v1S"

into the 8-character field "qq"?

(And I am hoping that the missing quotes are from you mis-transcribing the 
processing, rather than a copy-paste of the actual code.)

-- 
Kenneth Brody