code within an html form

[David Thompson]

>-For those that  don't  know what you are doing as
>-intimately as I do, the term "html form" in this
>-case refers to a Panorama form designed to be
>-used with a SaveAsText command. The text it
>-generates is html. Formulas are in auto wrap text
>-objects, so they must be enclosed in {braces}.
>-

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>  I would think this would be the same if I
>were to generate a report, right? Or is there no need for the braces in a
>report?

The braces are needed if the formula is in an auto wrap text object. 
On a form designed for use with SaveAsText, each of the tiles is 
required to have exactly one auto wrap text object, and no other 
objects. In a report, auto wrap text objects are not required, and 
you can use all sorts of other objects.

If your formula were in a Text Display or Word Processing SuperObject 
for example, the formula would not be enclosed in braces. It's only 
in an auto wrap text object that braces mean that their contents 
should be interpreted as a formula. In virtually every other context 
in Panorama, they are a way of quoting text. Their presence means 
that the text between them should be interpreted as literal text and 
*not* as a formula. So braces have essentially opposite meanings, 
depending on whether they are in an auto wrap text object or not.

Dave