Working with Standard Protocol Paper

rbuser

Dear friends...

I've been asigned the task to manage a lawyer's firm document processing
needs. Among them is the management of the Protocol Paper (the one used to
print legal documents and that have many lines on it). My country requires
that if a lawyer uses that paper it has to meet many legal conditions.

The paper has 24 numbered lines and the lawyer fills it in a regular way.
Document after document. She can only leave blank a few lines between
documents. But if corrections are made or errors are done, she must open
spaces an lines in the already printed document.

For example. Let's say she writes "... and the aforementiond witness..." she
must correct it just over the mistake with the proper character(s), in this
case " /e" over the "d" indicating that there must be an E. She must use the
imaginary line running over the actual line of text to make corrections.

Is there a simple or practical way to do it with RB ?

I was considering using two Report components. One for the actual text of
the document and the other one for the corrected text, if it happens to be
one. In that case, I would like to know which properties should I use to:
1. Manage the line spacing.
2. Manage the character's position within a line (either of actual or of
corrected text).

Please, if you have an elegant or better way to fulfill this assignment let
me know. I will be always be grateful.

Thank you.
Gerardo

gerardou@xygnus.com

nicocizik

Hi Gerardo,

How is each line accessed? Are you pulling this document off a database
line by line and printing the lines in the detail band using at dbText
component, or are you placing a TppMemo component inside the detail band and
creating the text lines all at once? If you are going line by line in the
detail band, you can give as much space either above or below the line as
you need by resizing the actual band. Then you could possible add another
line of text above it with its Visible property set to False for
corrections.

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