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William Zhu
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Hi,

Could someone help to solve this issue?

I'd like to add some spacing in the middle of heading, but when the report displayed in browser, these added spaces was removed.

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
HEADING
"This is a test <+8 Title"
END

Thanks,
William Zhu

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,


webfocus 5.3
WebFOCUS 7.1.x
WebFOCUS 7.6.x
WebFOCUS 7.7.x
Unix
Excel / HTML / PDF
 
Posts: 17 | Registered: February 06, 2009Report This Post
RSquared
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quote:
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
HEADING
"This is a test <+8 Title"
END


Use the Stylesheet to space the Title out. See sample below.

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
HEADING
"This is a test <+0 Title"
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,
PAGESIZE='Letter',
LEFTMARGIN=0.500000,
RIGHTMARGIN=0.500000,
TOPMARGIN=0.500000,
BOTTOMMARGIN=0.250000,
SQUEEZE=ON,
ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
GRID=OFF,
FONT='TIMES NEW ROMAN',
SIZE=12,
$

$
TYPE=HEADING,
SIZE=12,
STYLE=BOLD ,
LINE=1,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=1,
WIDTH=2.000,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
SIZE=12,
STYLE=BOLD ,
LINE=1,
OBJECT=TEXT,
ITEM=2,
WIDTH=0.850,
$
ENDSTYLE
END


WF 7.6.11
Oracle
WebSphere
Windows NT-5.2 x86 32bit
 
Posts: 398 | Registered: February 04, 2008Report This Post
William Zhu
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Thanks,

I tried your code. It works.
Seems this is the only way.


webfocus 5.3
WebFOCUS 7.1.x
WebFOCUS 7.6.x
WebFOCUS 7.7.x
Unix
Excel / HTML / PDF
 
Posts: 17 | Registered: February 06, 2009Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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Multiple spaces in HTML are always compressed to one space, this is normal HTML behaviour, nothing to do with WebFOCUS.

To force multiple spaces in HTML, you may use multiple HTML non-breaking spaces,
A&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;B

eg: A      B
though some web browsers may not render these correctly.

In WebFOCUS, RSquared's suggestion is your best bet.

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Francis


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Mike Honeycutt
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Lately, I've started using spaces in my headers instead of the <+8.

Please correct me if this is a "oh my gosh, never do it that way" example:

SET SHOWBLANKS=ON
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT 
CAR
HEADING
"This is a test          Title"
END


Mike Honeycutt UNC Asheville


WebFocus 7.6.6, Windows
 
Posts: 17 | Registered: September 25, 2007Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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SHOWBLANKS adds &nbsp;'s for each space character in the HEADING (like my suggestion). It may come in handy.

quote:

SHOWBLANKS - The SHOWBLANKS parameter preserves leading and internal blanks in HTML and EXL2K report output.

The syntax is:

SET SHOWBLANKS = {OFF|ON}
where:

OFF Removes leading and internal blanks in HTML and EXL2K report output. OFF is the default value.

ON Preserves leading and internal blanks in HTML and EXL2K report output.


Too bad it doesn't respect the <+99 carat PDF syntax for HTML.


Francis


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GinnyJakes
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That will work for you because of the SHOWBLANKS setting. It generates the  's in the html.

Unfortunately for William, he is still on 5.3 and that SET statement is not available to him.

As for your question, it is personal preference. With the carat notation, you know how many spaces there are without counting. You might also want to place parts of your heading bases on the stylesheet POSITION attribute. In that case, you would separate your heading items with a '<+0>'. More than you wanted to know, I'm sure. Smiler


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Posts: 2723 | Location: Ann Arbor, MI | Registered: April 05, 2006Report This Post
William Zhu
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Thanks for so many workarounds.

I did tests on each workarounds against WF 5.3.

1) the following code working:

SET SHOWBLANKS = ON
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
HEADING
"THIS IS A TESTING TITLE"
END
-RUN


2) this code doesn't work:

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
HEADING
"THIS IS A A      B TESTING TITLE"
END
-RUN

When run this code, it ask for value for variable "nbsp", if I give it value " ", then spaces displayed; otherwise, it don't.


Thanks for all the help,
William Zhu


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