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Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

Title:Online Bookbuilding
Notice:This conference is write-locked: see note 1.3.
Moderator:VAXUUM::UTT
Created:Fri Aug 12 1988
Last Modified:Mon Jul 15 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:440
Total number of notes:2134

396.0. "Character spacing prob with window title text using <DELAYED>" by SIEVAX::INGLESON () Fri Jan 11 1991 11:45

I'm having a problem with inter-character spacing of book title text both with
the icon and in the main viewing window. 

The problem appears to be caused by using the <DELAYED> tag - which I'm using 
because a simple <EMPHASIS>(SOME TITLE TEXT\SMALL_BOLDCAPS) won't work without
using the <DELAYED> tag. The title (in the main window banner and icon) appears
as:

B UILDING A DECbank C OURSE A DMINISTRATOR'S G UIDE

... and the coding is as follows:

<DEFINE_BOOK_NAME>(manual_title\B<DELAYED>(<EMPHASIS>(UILDING A\SMALL_BOLDCAPS))
 DECbank C<DELAYED>(<EMPHASIS>(OURSE\SMALL_BOLDCAPS)) A<DELAYED>(
<EMPHASIS>(DMINISTRATOR'S\SMALL_BOLDCAPS)) 
G<DELAYED>(<EMPHASIS>(UIDE\SMALL_BOLDCAPS)))

<TITLE>(<REFERENCE>(manual_title))
.
.
.
Any ideas... ofcourse I could dispense with the convoluted title text, but it 
does look pretty neat on the actual title page.
 
Thanks for your help
John
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396.1Looking into it...VAXUUM::GRANTI&#039;ve saved $2845.50 since I quit smoking.Wed Jan 16 1991 16:297
    Hi John,
    
    	Just thought I'd let you know that I'm looking into your problem. 
    I'll reply here when I've found the answer.
    
    Thanks,
    	Wayne
396.2Meanwhile, conditionalize...?OLD::UTTMary UttWed Jan 16 1991 16:5116
    John,
    
    Meanwhile (since the fix won't be in DOCUMENT V2.0, even if Wayne finds
    it this instant), I suggest conditionalizing the title to get your
    small caps output in hardcopy but omit them online. 
    
    Also, the space in "A dministrator's" is occurring in hardcopy, too,
    because the A is coded on a line separate from the rest of the word:
    
 DECbank C<DELAYED>(<EMPHASIS>(OURSE\SMALL_BOLDCAPS)) A<DELAYED>(
<EMPHASIS>(DMINISTRATOR'S\SMALL_BOLDCAPS)) 
    
    Coding "Administrator's" all on the same line should fix that problem.
    
    Mary
396.3Found the problem...VAXUUM::GRANTI&#039;ve saved $2875.50 since I quit smoking.Tue Feb 05 1991 09:1210
    Hi John,
    	Well, I've found and fixed a bug in the device converter that was
    causing the problem you found.  Some time ago we had a bug that
    required adding some space in titles.  What we hadn't counted on was
    that font changes in the title would also pick up that added space.
    
    	The fix will be in the next release of the writer's toolkit. 
    Thanks for pointing it out to us.
    
    Wayne