curly braces

[ASJ Botenga]

op 22-04-2008 16:15 schreef David Thompson op dthmpsn1 at uiuc.edu:

>>> Could you give me a simple example of the use of a curly brace "}".
>>> I did not use this sign up to the present and I cannot find an 
>>> example in
>>> the text of Panorama II+3
>> 
>> Here is a common use for curly braces that was already part of Pan 3.
>> 
>> You have a form with a Text object. There you wish to combine some 
>> static text with a calculated value or string. Then you have to use 
>> curly braces surrounding the formula within the text of this object.
>> 
>> You can make use of the "Build Formula Š" command in the Text menu. 
>> You get an Dialog. There you can access the Fields and the Functions 
>> menu, and Panorama will set the curly braces for you.
>> 
>> Here is an example:
>> Last import:  {vDocument+" imported in"+vDate}
>> where vDocument and vDate are variables, defined to contain the name 
>> of the imported document and the import date in a date pattern.
>> The form shows then:
>> Last import: BKZ_0408.txt imported in April 2008
>> 
>> There are more uses for curly braces.
>> Maybe Dave can and will explain more about them.
> 
> The other use is to use them as alternatives to
> quotes. I believe the Panorama II manual
> describes the use of smart quotes. You would use
> curly braces in the same way.
> 
> Message {He said "I'll see you later."}
> 
> Panorama 3.0.1 was the first version I ever used.
> I know this use of curly braces existed then, but
> I can't say if it was available for earlier
> versions. For Panorama 3 or 4, you can quote text
> with "regular quotes" ³smart quotes², or {curly
> braces}. With Panorama V you can add 'single
> quotes' and Œsmart single quotes¹ to the list,
> and with Panorama 5.5 you can add |||pipes|||.
> 
> P.S. I know the smart quotes and smart single
> quotes won't look like that to Apple Mail users,
> but Sylvia is using
> Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition,
> which should show them correctly, unless she is
> getting the plane text version of the digest. In
> that case, they would just be question marks.
> Digest subscribers who don't want all the
> non-ASCII characters to be changed to question
> marks should subscribe to the MIME version of the
> digest. That's not the version you get by default.
> 
> Dave
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Thanks to both of you. I expected this, because
in macro's, that you call procedures, you cannot 'print' quotes in a text,
for example:
 insertline field a (textfield) "All "" Right"
or use quotes after a quotation. There is a way however but that is a bit
more complicated.
I remain a bit surprised not to find any description in the handbook(s)
Sylvia