Is there a way to print different headers on even and odd pages? I don't just want the formatting to be different, I want the text and positioning to be different. For example on odd pages I want the page number followed by the title and I want it to be left-aligned; on even pages I want the title followed by the page number and I want it to be right-aligned.

Hi Leo,

you could try something like :

  
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR
COMPUTE PAGENO/I1	 = IMOD(TABPAGENO, 2, PAGENO) ;  NOPRINT
BY COUNTRY PAGE-BREAK
HEADING
" Testing  : page <TABPAGENO "
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=HEADING,
     GRID=OFF,
     SIZE=9,
     BOTTOMGAP=0,
     JUSTIFY=LEFT,
     TOPGAP=0,
     BACKCOLOR='NONE',
     COLOR='BLACK',
     STYLE='BOLD',
WHEN=PAGENO EQ 1,
$

TYPE=HEADING,
     GRID=OFF,
     SIZE=9,
     BOTTOMGAP=0,
     JUSTIFY=RIGHT,
     TOPGAP=0,
     BACKCOLOR='NONE',
     COLOR='BLACK',
     STYLE='BOLD',
WHEN=PAGENO EQ 0,
$

ENDSTYLE
END

Hope it helps ,

P.

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

Nice solution Pete, adding BY COUNTRY shows the full effect!

T

You are quite right , so i edited my code

P.

This works for the alternate positioning but not the alternate header.
I would like the even header to be "page TABPAGENO Testing"
but would like the odd header to be "Testing: page TABPAGENO".

This message has been edited. Last edited by: leo13,

Not easy to achieve using field names (to include TABPAGENO) or necessarily elegent, but you could try this as your header text -

HEADING
"page <TABPAGENO Testing  : <+0 page <TABPAGENO "

then follow it up with styling such as -

TYPE=HEADING, ITEM=1, COLOR=WHITE, WHEN=PAGENO EQ 0, $
TYPE=HEADING, ITEM=2, COLOR=WHITE, WHEN=PAGENO EQ 0, $
TYPE=HEADING, ITEM=4, COLOR=WHITE, WHEN=PAGENO EQ 1, $
TYPE=HEADING, ITEM=5, COLOR=WHITE, WHEN=PAGENO EQ 1, $

Not elegant, but it will achieve what you want. Change the COLOR to your backcolor value.

T

Edited to clarify the easy statement.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Tony A,

Yes Tom,

Not completely impossible but it depends on how elegant a solution you want.

You could goto the extent of using -

COMPUTE PAGE_NUM/I2 = IF COUNTRY NE LAST COUNTRY THEN LAST PAGE_NUM + 1 ELSE LAST PAGE_NUM; NOPRINT
COMPUTE HEAD_TEXT/A80 = IF PAGENO EQ 1 THEN 'Page: '|EDIT(PAGE_NUM)|' - Left hand Heading'
                                       ELSE 'Right hand Heading - Page: '|EDIT(PAGE_NUM); NOPRINT
BY COUNTRY PAGE-BREAK
HEADING
"<HEAD_TEXT"

but you ought to check just how many records you are pulling out, the additional processing overheads etc.

But for a small example such as this, many solutions are possible.

T

That sounds like a song title!

Rather than limited work-arounds, I'd like to see IBI emerge from the fan-fold-paper mindset and provide native support for two sided-printing. Things like:

- separate HEADING and FOOTING content for odd and even pages, as discussed in this thread.

- "ON sort-field PAGE-BREAK" syntax option to insure every section starts on an odd page.

- content ("this page intentionally ...") for the skipped pages.

Hi Pete,
Thanx a ton for your effort.I'll try this today & let you know the result.