RE: Anyone done a phonebook in Lout? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[James, Edward Mr DTSW/TCS]

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Hello,

 

My department headings are to be index entries. They are printed with a @CenteredList and each

department as "@ListItem { cragged @Break {department name}}."  This works fine, taking care of

breaking the long department names over several lines, as needed.

 

Now the customer wants each index entry to be prefixed by a plus sign (+) at the left of the column

and the department name still centered as above.   I changed from a @ListItem to:

 

    def @CMCE
        named cm { @Char space }
        named str {}
    {
        cm |0.5rt { str }
    }

    @CMCE cm { @Char plus } str {Department Name}

 

This works fine if the department name is less than one column width wide. Otherwise I get the

message:

 

    29,1: 10.575c object horizontally scaled by factor 0.59 (too wide for 6.330c paragraph)
and that department name is all on one line.

 

I tried:

 

    def @CMCE
        named cm { @Char space }
        named str {}
    {
        cm |0.5rt { cragged @Break { str }}
    }

but that didn't help.

 

What the customer wants is similar to a "Change Bar," but on each column, not just the page.

 

Thank you very much,

 

Ed James, Contractor                           address@hidden
Defense Telecommunications Service - Washington/TCS   voice  703-696-8815
1700 North Moore Street, Suite 1475                   fax    703-693-7507
Arlington, VA 22209

 

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