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In answer to Micheal Harris's letter regarding View macros in EUG20:
       The reason why the page was not ejected after printing each letter,
was that you included a "PE Off" stored command at the start of your
document. This disables not only automatic page breaks, but also the PE
command. If this is removed, your macro should work OK. 
       I have also used macros in View, but have found one major drawback:
The text is formatted using the "@0", "@1", etc. labels, not the real
words that they represent. This means that the text is often shunted off
the right-hand side of the page when a short label (e.g @0) is replaced by
a long phrase (e.g. Saturday 29th July 1995). This is not generally a
problem when you are only varying the address at the top of the letter (as
in Michael Harris's example), but can render the macro facility useless if
they are used to vary the body of the letter. I have developed a rather
long-winded way of getting around this, which I shall now describe.
       First, you should prepare your standard letter as described in the
user manual, with justify mode OFF. You should include a "PB Off" command
at the start of the document (not inside the macro itself). This is
contrary to what I said earlier, but is essential for this method to work
properly.
       Any stored commands within the macro itself (not the DM and EM
commands) should be replaced with the | symbol followed by the two letters
of the command. For example if you want a CE stored command, you should
type |CE at the start of the line where it is needed, but not in the
stored command margin (I will explain this in a moment). Highlight
characters (obtained by pressing FUNC-H or FUNC-J) can be used as usual if
you have a printer driver. At the end of the macro, just before the EM
command, you should include the line |PE, representing a Page Eject
command.
       Next, you must insert the characters |LJ in front of any line that
would be messed up by formatting. This is basically any line which does
NOT start with a space or Tab, and which is NOT part of a paragraph of
text. This usually includes the "Dear Mr. Bloggs" line at the start of a
letter.       
       Now return to command mode, and SAVE your document. Then type:       
                *SPOOL temp
                SCREEN
                *SPOOL
holding down Shift to scroll the text up.
       This text file must now be converted back into a View file so that
it can be be formatted properly. I have written a program to perform this
task, which is included on this disc together with its source code. The
program is called CONVERT, and can be executed from View or BASIC, by the
command *CONVERT. Type this command, and enter the filename of the text
file you wish to convert ("temp" in this case), followed by a filename for
the output file. You may need a lot of disc space for this operation. When
the program has finished converting the file, you may delete the file
"temp" (but not your original document).
       Now load your output file into View, and go into text mode. You
will find that all of your | characters have been turned into stored
commands. Set the ruler as necessary (use FUNC-, to display the default
ruler if necessary), and also switch justify mode on if you want your text
justified. Set the page length, top margin, header margin, header text,
etc. using stored commands as usual. Go back to command mode and FORMAT
the document. Check that this has not messed up any part of the document
(if it has, you may need to go back to your original macro file and add
some more |LJ commands).
       Finally, load a printer driver if necessary, and print the
document.
       This may seem a rather long-winded method, but I cannot see any
other way to format the documents properly. You can probably print the
macros directly if all of the entries for each parameter are about the
same length - just shorten the ends of the lines, and view the document
using the SCREEN command until the lines are about the same length.
Justifying is, I think, impossible without following the long approach.
Can anyone think of a better way?
                                                   Matthew Ford

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