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From: yossie@fnal.fnal.gov (Yossie Silverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: multiple fields to one
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Date: 19 Feb 91 22:02:21 GMT
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In article <6167@rex.cs.tulane.edu> david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (David 
Kaufmann) writes:
> I've got an address stack that has each item (title, firstname,
> lastname, street, city, state, zip) in a separate field. When I print
> labels (finally got that to work, thanks to Michale Freedburg),
> there's a lot of empty space between fields. I'd like to get a more
> polished, letter-like look. Since the purpose of the separate fields
> was for sorting and selecting, and I can now do that with mark, I'd
> like to either a) combine all the field data into one field (with 3
> lines in the field for when labels are printed) or print labels as
> they are with spaces between eliminated during printing.

as far as I can tell, you can include any hypercard statement that 
generates a string of text into the item description in the 'print report' 
item definition dialog.

What you need in your case is a single full label width item which is 
defined as:

field "first name" && field "last name"

and then more multi-line fields which define the rest.  It's not hard, and 
works as far as I can tell.

Cheers - Yossie


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