Re: [hylafax-users] faxcover commentsX

["Vyacheslav Frolov" <v.frolov@globalone.ru>]

Lee Howard wrote:

> At 06:54 PM 12/25/00 +0300, Vyacheslav Frolov wrote:
> >
> >
> >Lee Howard wrote:
> >
> >> Can anyone confirm that the faxcover 'commentsX' symbols/parameters
> >> function properly?  Or rather, can anyone confirm that they *don't*
> >> function properly?  I'm having extreme trouble implementing the usage of
> >> 'commentsX'...
> >
> >faxcover splits text at '\n' chars into CommentX, where X is
> [1-9\:\;\<\=\>\?\@A-D].
>
> (I'm asking this for a matter of documentation correction if correct...) Do
> you mean to say that the following paragraph from the faxcover manpage:
>
>        If the comments string is longer than 35 characters, it is
>        broken,  on  word  boundaries,  into  multiple  POSTSCRIPT
>        strings commentsX where X is the line number;  e.g.   com�
>        ments2  for  the second line of comments.  By default fax�
>        cover will generate 20 commentsX  strings,  emitting  null
>        string values for empty lines.  This number can be changed
>        with the -m option; see below.
>
> is incorrect in that first, the variable name is "CommentX" rather than
> "commentsX" (capitalized and missing the s), and that the comments string
> is *not* broken on word boundaries as explained, but rather as you have
> described?

Yes, it is. And "X is the line number" is incorrect too.

I can fix that but it seems that that logic is not very useful because it can be used
with fixed fonts only and there is BreakIntoLines that is better.

Vyacheslav..



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