Re: Keeping WRAP-ed columns on the same page

[Ray Ontko <rayo@ONTKO.COM>]

Todd,

It sounds like you have two things going on.

1) If you use NEXT-LISTING, it's not the NEED=2 that's causing
   the double-spacing, it's the (+1).  When you use NEXT-LISTING,
   the line AFTER the last line printed to becomes "LINE 1".
   If you use NEXT-LISTING, simply use (1,{HEAD_COL1}) for your
   first print position in the detail.

2) How many lines do you have reserved for your heading in
   BEGIN-HEADING?  For example, you might have BEGIN-HEADING 3,
   but perhaps print on lines 2, 3 and 4 of the heading (the
   last of these is actually in the body of your report.

Is this making any sense?

Ray

> Hi there,
>         I've come across this problem before, but can't remember how I got
> around it. I've got a tabular report with about 13 columns on it.  One of
> those columns needs to use the WRAP feature in order to display the complete
> text. Here's the code:
>
>    !print out the detail records
>     print $prod_code  (+1,{HEAD_COL1})
>     print $plane_code (,{HEAD_COL3})
>     print &planedesc  (,{HEAD_COL4})
>     print $dim_code   (,{HEAD_COL5})
>     print $size_code  (,{HEAD_COL6}) underline
>     print $processed_flag  (,{DTL_COL7}) underline
>     print $pkms_onhand     (,{HEAD_COL8})
>     print $pkms_qual_aud   (,{HEAD_COL9})
>     print $pkms_not_avail  (,{HEAD_COL10})
>     print $omnia_onhand    (,{HEAD_COL11})
>     print $omnia_qual_aud  (,{HEAD_COL12})
>     print $omnia_not_avail (,{HEAD_COL13})
>     print $diff_onhand     (,{HEAD_COL14})
>     print $diff_qual_aud   (,{HEAD_COL15})
>     print $diff_not_avail  (,{HEAD_COL16})
>     print &proddesc   (,{HEAD_COL2}) WRAP 19 2
>
> The problem is that sometimes if the last detail line on a page has a
> &proddesc that wraps, the second line prints up in the header of the next
> page. I've tried using next-listing need=2, and that doesn't work for me.
> Firstly, because then it double-spaces ALL the detail lines regardless of
> whether that field wraps to 2. Secondly, even if it does wrap it's still
> printing up in the header of the next page.  Any suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Todd
>

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