It has also occurred to me to wrap in an html tag or some such to do this.
On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Most of what I generate is forms, so keeping track of fields is easy and
> natural.
>
> I am now getting to motions, which will use data much like mail-merge in a
> word processor. So I might use something like
>
> Debtor ##dname## filed this petition on ##petdate##
>
>
> to generate
>
>
> Debtor John Doe filed this petition on 1/15/2015
>
>
>
> For short things, it would be easy enough on rendering output to watch for
> words starting with ## and place the data field over the word, either on
> first render or possibly on the fly with mouseMove.
>
> This won't work "well" for a phrase, though, which can wrap.
>
>
> But if I could do something on initial render like
>
> put getVal("thePhrase") into theVa
>
> replace word i of tgField with theVal
>
> set the theProp of word i to i + the number of words in theVal -1 to
> "thePhrase"
>
>
> things would be fairly straightforward to monitor.
>
> I need to monitor, as that data changes, it needs o go back into the
> database
>
> --
> Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
> (702) 508-8462
>
--
Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
(702) 508-8462
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