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- Short: THE calendar creator for FW & Pagestream
- Author: Ron Goertz
- Uploader: rgoertz@wsu.edu
- Type: util/rexx
- Replaces: util/rexx/FWCalendar*
-
-
- A macro for creating calendars in Final Writer v4+ and PageStream v3+, and a macro for adding
- events to those calendars.
-
- Features:
- Over 100 user-definable variables
- Same program works with Final Writer & PageStream!
- Calendars are fully resizable by changing only the margins - no
- need to change font sizes!
- Start the calendar on any day of the week (eg, Monday, Tuesday, ..., Sunday)
-
- Mini calendars
- "Shadowed" days from previous/next months
- Different backgrounds for weekends, highlights, and holidays
- Option to print full year on a single page
- Add Julian dates
- Add sunrise/sunset times (via SunCalc)
- Add sequential week numbers
-
- Automatic holidays
- Multiple holidays on a day
- Easter and Easter-based events can be included
-
- Single-day events
- Multi-day/week events
- Multiple-line events
- Repeated weekly events
- Boxed events
-
- Fully localized
- Full control over colors and fonts
- Test Mode to verify variables (FW version only)
- Separate settings for Monthly and Yearly calendars
- Launch a program or macro after the calendar is done
- Y2K Compliant!
-
-
- CALENDAR MACRO HISTORY
-
- 3.15 16 Feb 99
- Changed a command to allow macro to work with pre-v 3.4 PageStream
-
- 3.10 14 Feb 99
- Added StretchDate variable
- Added Font.Highlight variable (can be different from Font.Date)
- Improved French translation file (thanks Pierre!)
- Improved print routines to allow both single and double quotes
- CAUTION: Calendars created not compatible with pre-v 3.10 AddEvent.rexx
- Allowed for the absence of any Highlight data
-
- 3.05 13 Feb 99
- Added Swedish FWCalendar.data file (thanks Börje!)
- Added option to print week number
- Added text colors for Julian days, weeknumbers, and sunrise/sunset times
- Added text prefixes for Julian days, weeknumbers, and sunrise/sunset times
-
- 3.02 7 Feb 99
- Fixed an even smaller bug in TestMode
-
- 3.01 6 Feb 99
- Fixed a small bug in TestMode
-
- 3.00 1 Feb 99
- Extensive re-write - CHECK YOUR VARIABLES!
- Fully scaleable
- Works on Final Writer AND Pagestream
- Fully localizable (see localization)
- Updated Spanish data file
- Added Julian dates
- Added sunrise/sunset times (via SunCalc)
- Added the ability to launch a program or macro after the calendar is done
-
- 2.25 29 Dec 98
- Separate data files can be used for Yearly and Monthly calendars
- Added 'Orientation' ('Tall' or 'Wide') to variables
- Multiple highlights on a single date improved (NO limitations!)
- Floating date for Easter determined
- Events based on time-after-Easter added (see Installation instructions)
- Fixed the part of the Guide explaining how floating dates are calculated
- Fixed the entry for calculating Thanksgiving (wrong on a recent upload, though
- previously working?)
- Fixed the year for mini-calendars printed at the turn of the year (also wrong
- on a recent upload, though previously working)
-
- 2.20 10 Oct 98
- Multiple highlights on a single date are now allowed (see Highlights)
-
- 2.15 Allowed true cancellation of the "Save changes to document?" requestor
- Added a TestMode to check the variables in the FWCalendar.data file.
- Corrected the order in which user variables are read; resulted in the
- proper use of localized values for BlackName and WhiteName.
- If Extended mode is turned off, the empty boxes are no longer drawn
-
- 2.10 Moved ALL user variables to FWCalendar.data file
- Added control over colors for about everything (see variables)
- Re-wrote (cleaned up) LOTS of the code
-
- 2.05 Not a version change, because it's exactly the same as the previous
- version 2.05 without my mistake of accidentally commenting out two
- essential lines. Do have some updates to the German and Italian
- translation (FWCalendar.data) files, though. SORRY!
-
- 2.05 Deleted my hard-coded margins. Oops!
- Canned the FW requestors in favor of Reqtools requestors
- Changed the way the upper area (the area with the mini-calendars
- and the month name) is calculated to allow for hard-coding margins
- (Dieter Zimmermann wanted his calendars to appear on the lower half
- of a portrait-oriented page, presumably to allow the addition of a
- picture on the upper half. Good idea, Dieter!)
-
- 2.0 Now 'localized' for American, German, Spanish, French,
- Italian, and Portugese
-
- 1.4 Full-year calendar now fills the full page
- Font widths now work
-
- 1.3 Fixed macro to allow use of a comma for the decimal point
- instead of the period
-
- 1.2 Added box/bold of highlight dates in mini-calendars
- Added option to print full year of calendars on a single
- page
-
- 1.1 de-Americanized macro (no longer assumes US Letter paper
- and inch units)
-
- 1.01 Corrected default margins
- Removed my personal highlights
- Set default fonts to more likely locations
-
- 1.0 First release
-
- ADDEVENT MACRO HISTORY
-
- 3.15 16 Feb 99
- Changed a command to allow macro to work with pre-v 3.4 PageStream
-
- 3.10 14 Feb 99
- Improved print routines to allow both single and double quotes
- CAUTION: Not compatible with pre-v 3.10 FWCalendars
-
- 3.00 1 Feb 99
- Fully localizable (see localization)
- Can use either MUIRexx (recommended) or Gui4Cli
-
- 2.50 29 Dec 98
- Fixed some calls that may or may not have caused some people problems
-
- 2.45 10 Oct 98
- Modified slightly to work around the fact that on some machines the
- Gui4Cli routine signalled that it was done before it really was.
-
- 2.40 Accommodated changes in FWCalendar.data file
-
- 2.35 Accommodated the upper-area-calculation change made in FWCalendar.rexx
- macro.
-
- 2.3 Fixed bug that didn't allow the close gadget to work
- Now 'localized' for American, German, Spanish, French,
- Italian, and Portugese
-
- 2.2 Can now (indirectly) enter the '$' in events (see User Variables)
-
- 2.1 Fixed macro to allow use of a comma for the decimal point
- instead of the period
-
- 2.0 Now REQUIRES Gui4Cli, but what an improvement!
- Can enter weekly events
-
- 1.2 de-Americanized macro (no longer assumes US Letter paper
- and inch units)
-
- 1.1 Corrected default margins
- Set default fonts to more likely locations
- Added multi-line, auto-breaking, non-boxed events
-
- 1.0 First release
-
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 717 334 53.4% 10-Sep-98 22:50:36 FWCalendar.info
- 25375 7265 71.3% 16-Feb-99 22:30:20 +AddEvent.rexx
- 1762 679 61.4% 15-Feb-99 11:12:38 +FWCalendar.data
- 1987 881 55.6% 15-Feb-99 11:17:54 +FWCalendar.data
- 1945 876 54.9% 15-Feb-99 11:15:52 +FWCalendar.data
- 1377 688 50.0% 15-Feb-99 11:17:04 +FWCalendar.data
- 55909 14946 73.2% 17-Feb-99 17:47:20 +FWCalendar.Guide
- 43941 11146 74.6% 16-Feb-99 22:21:30 +FWCalendar.rexx
- 3250 853 73.7% 22-Dec-98 11:58:26 +FWCalendarE.data
- 1053 502 52.3% 15-Feb-99 11:16:48 +FWCalendar.data
- 734 386 47.4% 15-Feb-99 11:16:22 +FWCalendar.data
- 1929 827 57.1% 15-Feb-99 11:16:06 +FWCalendar.data
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- 139979 39383 71.8% 20-Feb-99 01:00:22 12 files
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