----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 2:49
PM
Subject: RE: carriage return in
@precinct
GBS need to print precinct, ward and
district on the ballot. These three items are currently defined in the
base precinct name, but can obviously only be formatted with spaces in the
label field.
Okay, so
its a formatting thing.
I had already discussed with them the
possibility of an @district macro, however, the district reference
would be ambiguous and printing all districts which contain the base
precinct is not desirable, either.
It would
have to be @district-XXX (or something like that), where XXX was the parent
district number. Would that, with the existing @precinct macro, satisfy
their formatting requirements?
Are you implying that you (plural) are
intending on moving towards a Word-style full rich text edit? If so,
when would this be implemented?
No, we aren't
intending anything. It is just one way to skin this cat.
This "variable ballot data" issue comes up a fair amount, hence the
second-pass stuff that Spectrum does on our postscript. I will bounce it off Tab and Dean when they return and try to come up
with a solution that will address this in general.
Formatting and labels are
purposely divorced concepts, so hopefully the control character suggestion is
not the only solution here.
Ken