Entire line wrap.

[sneden]

I've been stuck on this problem for a bit now. I am creating a bibliography with MLA style citations. This is a free-form report so everything is in a subheading, here is the problem:

1) I need to be able to have the entire line (in this case a subheading) wrap to the next line if it over flows. I can accomplish this by pushing all of the fields together and then outputing with pdf wrap option.

2) I need to be able to have one field (publisher) be in italics. I can achieve this with the style sheet if all of my fields are separate.

Unfortunately, so far I have found these solutions to be mutually exclusive. Here is what I want to be able to do:

ON TABLE SET STYLE *
type=subhead, line=1, item=3, style=+italic, $
type=subhead, wrap=8.0, $
ENDSTYLE
ON RECORD_ID SUBHEAD
"<AUTH<TITLE<PUB<DISPLAY_DATE"

This code causes each item to wrap individualy, not as an entire line.
Any Ideas?

Thanks,
Jeff Sneden

 

[focwizard]

Jeff,

Instead of using separate fields for AUTH, TITLE, etc. , why not concatenate them together, so they're a single field? That way, the entire line is the thing that wraps.

It'll look something like:

DEFINE FILE filename
LINE/A200 = AUTH || (' ' | TITLE) || (' ' | PUB) || (' ' | DISPLAY_DATE);
END

The above code inserts a SINGLE space between the fields.

If DISPLAY_DATE is a 'date' format field, then you'll need to use one of the date handling routines, to turn it into an alpha string.

 

[sneden]

Right now that is my solution, but it is insufficient as I am not able to italicize the publication then. Thanks for the help.

-Jeff Sneden

 

[focwizard]

Jeff,

If need be (assuming your output it HTML), you can put the HTML control characters right into the string of concatenated fields. Just remember to SET HTMLENCODE=OFF.

 

[sneden]

I need the output to be PDF.

Thanks,
Jeff Sneden