Re: MetaCard printing

Scott Raney ((no email))
Tue, 7 Mar 1995 09:47:51 -0700 (MST)

>
> Subject: Prining
> --------
> One big difference between MC and HC is that you cannot (apparently) print the
> contents of fields easily. Thus all the language documentation in the help
> stack cannot be dumped to paper easily.

Printing field contents didn't seem like a very useful feature so we
omitted it. If you just want to print out the text, it would be much
better to write a little script that writes the contents of each field
out a file which you can then run through nroff/troff. At least you
have some control over the formatting that way. If you wanted to get
fancy, your script could even write out nroff/troff commands before
each field to change the font sizes and styles.

> Am I missing something? Is there a quick workaround?

Buy a copy of the documentation. It's $45 and includes all of the
documentation in the Help stacks, nicely formatted and indexed. For
details, see the ordering forms from "Licensing" in the MetaCard help
menu.

> Steve

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