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From: emery@linus.mitre.org (David Emery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Text Attributes in a HC 2.0 report?
Message-ID: <EMERY.90Nov7140942@aries.linus.mitre.org>
Date: 7 Nov 90 19:09:42 GMT
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I have a bibliography stack.  I have bkgnd fields like Author, Title,
Publisher, etc.  I'd like print a report where everything is printed
in a single report field, but the Title field appears in bold-face.

For instance, given the 2 cards:
	Author:		Booch, Grady
	Title:  	Software Engineering with Ada
	Publisher:  	Benjamin-Cummings

	Author:		Nyberg, Karl (ed)
	Title:		The Annotated Ada Reference Manual
	Publisher:	Grebyn Corp.

I'd like the book title to appear in bold-face, and the entire entry
to be "packed" into one line:
	Booch, Grady, _Software_Engineering_with_Ada_, Benjamin-Cummings
	Nyberg, Karl (ed), _The_Annotated_Ada_Reference_Manual_, Grebyn Corp.
(_xxx_ represents xxx printed in bold-face).  

Right now I have a single report item whose contents is 
	field "Author" & "," && field "Title" & , && field "Publisher"
If I split this up into single reports, then I'd get "fixed-width"
fields, and the report would look something like:
	Booch, Grady        _Software_Engineering_With_Ada_  Benjamin-Cummings
	Nyberg, Karl (ed)   _The_Annotated_Ada_Reference Ma_ Greybn Corp.

One more question:  There seems to be a minimum size for the "box"
containing the items in the report writer.  I can't seem to get the
vertical size any smaller than .468 inches (32 points).  This produces
a lot of wasted white space in my report.  Is there any way to reduce
the size of the "box"?

On the other hand, the combination of find with marking with the
report writer makes Hypercard 2.0 a LOT more friendly for doing these
kinds of things!!

				dave emery
				emery@aries.mitre.org