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12 November 1993
This is an addendum to the instructions for the footnote macros
in FNOTE1.ZIP that I uploaded recently. In my quest to keep the
size of the FNOTE1.ZIP file to a decently small size, I first took
all of the macros and saved them as ASCII text. This got rid of a lot
of the DeScribe overhead. I didn't save FOOTINST.ALL as ASCII. I tried
to but whenever I opened it up, DeScribe insisted, for some unknown
reason, on treating it like a Peachtree 5000 2.1 file (whatever that
is) and it really destroyed the FOOTINST.ALL macro.
So, the other 15 macros were much smaller than they would be if they
had been saved as DeScribe files.
That's the good news.....
The bad news is that I have come to find that, although the newly compiled
macros (saved as ASCII) will compile successfully, and will work during
that session of DeScribe, they will not be recognized as DeScribe macros
the next time you start DeScribe. I've always saved my macros as DeScribe
documents so I never noticed this behavior. I did test the ZIP file I
uploaded, and it compiled all the macros as I expected. BUT I hadn't tried
running them until just now.
Enough excuses...please accept my apologies.
You will have to open these 15 macro files (they all start with FOOT*) and
save them as DeScribe format files. Then the macros will retain whatever it
is that DeScribe expects to see when it runs them.
A WARNING though!!
Some of the macros have some very long lines. If these lines get
word-wrapped it will cause the macro to fail.
The Page Definition format that these files were saved in was "Program"
which by default is 40 inches wide, so unless you have changed the
"Program" layout file, the words shouldn't wrap.
If you have changed this layout, then change the point size of the document
to 6pts just to be sure.
If you get errors in the macro when you run them, please check the macro file
first to make sure none of the lines are wrapped.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Steve Weeks