Newbies rfans Posted April 3, 2001 Newbies Share Posted April 3, 2001 I want to be able to take four text fields, each of varying width, one above the other in a block that are center justified, and then have this entire block set to print in my print layout flush right with the page margin while retaining the blocks center justification. In other words, a center justified text block flush right with the right page margin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
signal Posted April 3, 2001 Share Posted April 3, 2001 Can you create a text calculation of the four fields and put it on your right margin and tell the field to center? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbies rfans Posted April 3, 2001 Author Newbies Share Posted April 3, 2001 I have tried this, but when I tell the field to center justify it moves the text away from the margin. Am I forgetting something in my calculation? Thanks for your reply! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWeaver Posted April 3, 2001 Share Posted April 3, 2001 When you format the text as centered, it will center it with respect to the center of the field's box. The only thing you can do is try to reduce the field box so that it's a little closer to the size of the longest piece of text that it may contain. The only workaround that I know of is to use a monospaced font like Courier and insert spaces as necessary to make the text centered. Like so: cMaxLength=Max(Length(TextField1),Length(TextField2),Length(TextField3),Length(TextField4)) cTextField1=TextField1 & Left(" ",Int((cMaxLength-Length(TextField1))/2)) cTextField2=TextField2 & Left(" ",Int((cMaxLength-Length(TextField2))/2)) cTextField3=TextField3 & Left(" ",Int((cMaxLength-Length(TextField3))/2)) cTextField4=TextField4 & Left(" ",Int((cMaxLength-Length(TextField4))/2)) Now line up cTextField1 through cTextField4 one above other at the right margin and format them as right justified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwhetstone Posted April 4, 2001 Share Posted April 4, 2001 There are two ways to accomplish this: 1) use marker fields. in your layout, create a simple text block. You need to surround the FIELD NAME in double angle brackets. for instance, if your four fields are named Text1, Text2, Text3, Text4, you should create text block. in that text block, do this: <<Text1>> <<Text2>> <<Text3>> <<Text4>> and center-align that text block. You can then position that whole block wherever you want. 2) Create a new calculation field Text1234, set it to: Text1234 = Text1 & " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobWeaver Posted April 5, 2001 Share Posted April 5, 2001 Won't work because the text still remains centered with respect to the bounding box of the text field, so it won't slide up tight to the right margin. One other possibility is to create several calculated fields each of which is arranged on the layout in increasing widths. For example: DisplaySize01 = case(Size=1,"Field1"&" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted April 6, 2001 Share Posted April 6, 2001 It seems to me that you want what PageMaker used to call "force justify" where the word/sentence is s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d out from margin to margin by increasing the word and letter spacing. (It looks ugly IMHO but that's not the point.) There is no direct way to do this in FMP. A calculation could be done that inserts extra spaces between words and letters, but getting it automated is going to be a real challenge in anything but a mono-spaced font. There is one other idea.. an *image* of the text could be resized to simulate the effect, but the shape of the characters will be distorted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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