From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8cc649f593606ebf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-03 07:52:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn12feed!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.217.77.102!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Prettty printed reports in MSWindows Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 10:52:43 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: References: <3EB1A07A.6050108@dontspam.net> <5Ejsa.167213$Si4.130791@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net> <3EB272FE.1030501@dontspam.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.bb.b2 X-Server-Date: 3 May 2003 14:52:44 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36911 Date: 2003-05-03T14:52:44+00:00 List-Id: Unfortunately, that's not an Ada question - its a platform question. Ada - and most other languages I know of - doesn't provide anything specific in the standard as to how to do formatting of that sort of output. Its impossible because it all depends on the output devices you're interested in. Those devices might change on a weekly basis, so its hard to put anything in the standard. You could look at making your output in Postscript or HTML or XML or some other appropriate plain-text markup and using tools after you have the markup for post processing the documents. You have to look at what is available on your platform to do that - or what you can reasonably get. But beyond plain ASCII reports, there isn't much that is standard and supported everywhere. MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "Going cold turkey isn't as delicious as it sounds." -- H. Simpson ====================================================================== Mark wrote in message news:3EB272FE.1030501@dontspam.net... > Using GNAT. Unfortunately I do meant the fonts, lines, boxes maybe > shaded areas and such. (So far we can leave out colors ... but, of > course, that is subject to change.) > > Mark >