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vrf Printing To File in Boldface

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<Shaun.Trussler@nokia.com> wrote:
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> OK, thanks for the solutions so far. I understand the
> the tags necessary to include for an html file but are there
> similar tags for a .txt file to be viewed in either Wordpad
> or Notepad for example?

Depends once again on formatting.

A plain ASCII .txt file has no formatting and is just characters.

Notepad is straight ASCII so you can't do what you want. Same with any other
plain ascii editor since ASCII just doesn't work that way.

Wordpad can understand various formats, with RTF probably being your
best bet. I believe that the tag there is .

Since there are many incompatible formatting methods it is not possible
to write a single file to show different formats in all viewers. Hence
you need to specify viewer before selecting format.

Stan

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VRFuser Dec 11, 2002 6:18 PM
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Greetings:

Anyone know how to set up the "To File" object print to a file in boldface?
I would like to selectively print values in boldface that fail a specified
criteria (e.g. if x is not a certain array of values, print it in boldface
when printing to file). I would like to avoid sorting through the file and
doing this after printing. Thanks for any help.

Regards,
Shaun Trussler

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VRFuser Dec 11, 2002 7:32 PM
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I see a lot of other people liked the HTML idea as well. I also liked it
because I could easily include graphs (as jpgs) as well, and the company
logo! Main drawback is that the Tab has no meaning in HTML and is ignored,
so data sheets tend to become tables. The table concept is simple enough,
once you take a little bit to learn the rules about the tags (TABLE, TR,
TD). But there were plenty of opinions on what a generic table looked like
that it was a challenge to write a generic GenerateTable function.

Kathy Kiessling

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From: "Kathy Kiessling" <k.kiessling@attbi.com>
To: <Shaun.Trussler@nokia.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [vrf] Printing To File in Boldface

> I'd think there are several solutions to this. I think the realy answer
> is.. 'it depends'. It depends on the file format you are using and how it
> embedds the formatting information.
>
> I personally had chosen to write files as HTML. They are small, load
> quickly, are and portable. In that case, I'd insert the HTML tag <b>
before
> and </b> after the text in question. If you're interested, I could post
the
> basics for getting an HTML file setup.
>
> Kathy Kiessling
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Shaun.Trussler@nokia.com>
> To: "VEE vrf" <vrf@it.lists.it.agilent.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 8:18 AM
> Subject: [vrf] Printing To File in Boldface
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>
>
> Greetings:
>
> Anyone know how to set up the "To File" object print to a file in
boldface?
> I would like to selectively print values in boldface that fail a specified
> criteria (e.g. if x is not a certain array of values, print it in
boldface
> when printing to file). I would like to avoid sorting through the file and
> doing this after printing. Thanks for any help.
>
>
> Regards,
> Shaun Trussler
>
>
>
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VRFuser Dec 11, 2002 8:53 PM
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VRFuser Dec 11, 2002 11:42 PM
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OK, thanks for the solutions so far. I understand the
the tags necessary to include for an html file but are there
similar tags for a .txt file to be viewed in either Wordpad
or Notepad for example?

Some more details:

An array of numbers or text will be sent to a variable and
the variable in turn will be sent to a To File object and
printed to a text file. Some of the elements in the array
of the variable need to be boldfaced when printed to the
text file.

Regards,
Shaun Trussler

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From: ext D'SOUZA,MARIO (A-USA,ex1) [mailto:mario_dsouza@agilent.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:53 AM
To: VEE vrf
Subject: [vrf] RE: Printing To File in Boldface

To view boldface, the capability to show it must be in the "browser"
(eg. word/notepad/netscape) that you have; I found that html is very
easy to do. See attached:

Mario D'Souza
Agilent Technologies

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rsb Dec 12, 2002 8:36 AM
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<Shaun.Trussler@nokia.com> wrote:
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> Greetings:
>
> Anyone know how to set up the "To File" object print to a file in boldface?
> I would like to selectively print values in boldface that fail a specified
> criteria (e.g. if x is not a certain array of values, print it in boldface
> when printing to file). I would like to avoid sorting through the file and
> doing this after printing. Thanks for any help.

That would completely depend upon what editor/viewer you are using
to view the file. The "to file" object knows nothing about case- it
simply puts out ascii characters which in turn know nothing about case.

Once you know what viewer is invloved then you can simply add in
the correct tags.

for instance if you are writing HTML you'd want something like

blah blah <b>bold blah</b> blah blah

in RTF it would be something like

blah blah cf1 f1 bold blah cf0 0f0 blah blah

Once you know the right tags then add them to your transaction in TO FILE

regards

Stan

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