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From: Barry.Chern@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG (Barry Chern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Description of HyperCard 2.0
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Date: 11 Aug 90 04:45:23 GMT
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MW>  I'm particularly interested in whether is has improved report  
MW>   printing facilities, eg. the ability to print selected cards 
MW>  from a   stack. Could anyone who has a copy help me out ?

I haven't seen one concise document on 2.0 features; but there's been lots of
conversation on CI$, and my local user group got a glitzy 3 disk set of stacks
from Apple that goes into great detail and includes some visual mock-ups.

"They" say that in 2.0 cards will have a new property known as "marked". I think
you will be able to set cards to marked manually or from within scripts, and
then "print marked cards", or something equally simple. Even better, you can
script with the print command to print any expression, so you could specify
fields by name, or even "print fld a + field b", and if those fields contain
numbers the sum would be printed. The possibilities go way beyond these plebian
examples.

--B. 

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