My goal, for purposes of easy maintenance, is to create several text variables and then concatenate them, and wrap the result prior to displaying in a PDF report. My test code is below. It appears it individually warps each of the variables across the page which is not what I want. I want the result to be wrapped as if a single string of text. As a side note, I also want to be able to style SENTENCE2 as BOLD and still get the concatenation and wrapping I desire. Any clues?

Thanks,
George

ATTTEMPT 1
----------

DEFINE FILE EMPLOYEE
SENTENCE1/A1000='The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. ';
SENTENCE2/A1000='The grass is green. The grass is green. The grass is green. ';
SENTENCE3/A1000='The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. ';
END

TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE
BY LAST_NAME NOPRINT
ON TABLE SUBFOOT
" ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
$
TYPE=REPORT,
GRID=OFF,
FONT='ARIAL',
SIZE=10,
JUSTIFY=LEFT,
$
TYPE=TABFOOTING,
LINE=1,
OBJECT=FIELD,
JUSTIFY=LEFT,
WRAP=6.5,
$
ENDSTYLE

END


ATTEMPT 2
---------
This gets me closer but left margin is off and no BOLDing.

DEFINE FILE EMPLOYEE
SENTENCE1/A1000='The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. <+0> The grass is green. The grass is green. The grass is green.<+0> The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. ';
END

TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE
BY LAST_NAME NOPRINT
ON TABLE SUBFOOT
" ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
$
TYPE=REPORT,
GRID=OFF,
FONT='ARIAL',
SIZE=10,
JUSTIFY=LEFT,
$
TYPE=TABFOOTING,
LINE=1,
WRAP=6.5,
$
TYPE=TABFOOTING,
LINE=1,
ITEM=1,
OBJECT=FIELD,
$
TYPE=TABFOOTING,
LINE=1,
ITEM=2,
OBJECT=FIELD,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=TABFOOTING,
LINE=1,
ITEM=3,
OBJECT=FIELD,
$

ENDSTYLE
END

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

WebFOCUS 7.6
Windows, All Outputs

You need to enclose your code in

[code]

[/code]
pairs so it isn't read as HTML.

Here's something that might work:

DEFINE FILE EMPLOYEE
 SENTENCE1/A1000V = 'The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. ';
 SENTENCE2/A1000V = 'The grass is green. The grass is green. The grass is green. ';
 SENTENCE3/A1000V = 'The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. ';
 SENTENCEX/A3000V = SENTENCE1 | SENTENCE2 | SENTENCE3 ;
END

TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE
 BY LAST_NAME NOPRINT
 WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 1;
 ON TABLE SUBFOOT
  "<SENTENCEX"
 ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF 
 ON TABLE SET STYLE *
  TYPE=REPORT, GRID=OFF, FONT='ARIAL', SIZE=10, JUSTIFY=LEFT, $
  TYPE=TABFOOTING, OBJECT=FIELD, JUSTIFY=LEFT, WRAP=6.5, STYLE=BOLD, $
 ENDSTYLE
END

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Dan Satchell,

Sorry that I can't help on this. It's incommplete code. Please fill in the blanks and post if between the "code tags". The red </> set of tags shown above.

ON TABLE SUBFOOT
" ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *

Thanks Dan, Maybe this:

SET PAGE = OFF
DEFINE FILE EMPLOYEE
 SENTENCE1/A1000V = 'The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. The car is red. ';
 SENTENCE2/A1000V = 'The grass is green. The grass is green. The grass is green. ';
 SENTENCE3/A1000V = 'The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. The bird is blue. ';
 SENTENCEX/A3000V = SENTENCE1 | SENTENCE2 | SENTENCE3 ;
END

TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE
PRINT
SENTENCE1 AS '' OVER
SENTENCE2 AS '' OVER
SENTENCE3 AS ''
 BY LAST_NAME NOPRINT
 WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 1;
-* ON TABLE SUBFOOT
-*  "<SENTENCE1 </1>"
-*  "<SENTENCE2 </1>"
-*  "<SENTENCE3 </1>"
 ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF 
 ON TABLE SET STYLE *
LEFTMARGIN=.75, RIGHTMARGIN=.75,$
  TYPE=REPORT, GRID=OFF, FONT='ARIAL', SIZE=10, JUSTIFY=LEFT, WRAP=7.0,$
-*  TYPE=TABFOOTING, OBJECT=FIELD, JUSTIFY=LEFT, WRAP=6.5, STYLE=BOLD, $
TYPE = DATA, COLUMN=SENTENCE2, COLOR=BLUE,$
 ENDSTYLE
END

Thanks Dan,

I've tried this and it appears it may be my only solution. Not to be picky, the only issue with solution is that each line appears to end with a carriage return so the 3 lines are not concatenated as a paragraph which I prefer. I'll play around with your solution and maybe I can make that happen. Maybe I'm stretching the limitations of the tool.

Thanks again for your quick response and simple solution,
George

Sorry, maybe I mean thanks Doug. Well thanks to the both of you.

George