Fancy Invoice Address Spacing

elvis elvis at dogonfire.com
Thu Mar 6 08:02:26 EST 2008


Well I will give it a go. My main concern is time, a few years ago I would 
have spent a week enjoying the problem. My life has moved on in that I just 
don't have time to make open ended time commitments for trivial things. I 
would much rather pay someone who knows what they are doing to make the 
changes. 


On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, you wrote:
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> elvis <elvis at dogonfire.com> writes:
> > If you had read my post you would know that I know the where the
> > alterations need to be made. I just don't know how to make them.
>
> I'm sorry, I did misinterpret your message as you modifying the
> easy-invoice and invoice.  Mea Culpa.
>
> > Telling me I need to learn scheme is really no help at all, but I
> > guess thanks for responding anyway.
>
> Well, you WILL have to learn scheme.. At least you'll need to learn
> enough scheme to be able to modify it correctly.  The syntax is extremely
> simple that ANYONE can learn the syntax.
>
> I'd look at either where it creates the address table, or where it's
> output.  I don't remember offhand where the alignment tags are
> inserted, but I believe there's an align right command in there somewhere.
> You're just going to have to play around with it to add extra whitespace
> to the right and see if it works.   Another option would be to reset the
> page width?  Not sure if that would work.
>
> > cheers
> >
> > Lawrence
>
> -derek
>
> > On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, you wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Lawrence Muir <elvis at dogonfire.com> writes:
> >> > Hi I am hoping for a little help adjusting the fancy invoice. I
> >> > couldn't find anything like it in the lists though I would be happy to
> >> > be pointed to a post.
> >> >
> >> > I would like to move the customer address block over about 20mm so it
> >> > shows in a window envelope. I have edited the scm file to change
> >> > Invoice to Tax Invoice so I know the basics, I am not much of a
> >> > programmer so I am having trouble finding where to put the whitespace
> >> > (if that is the best way to do it).
> >> >
> >> > Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> First, you need to adjust "fancy-invoice.scm".  From that you would
> >> just need to change the output "appropriately".  How to do that
> >> (and what you need to change in the output) is left as an exercise
> >> to the reader.
> >>
> >> > cheers
> >> >
> >> > Lawrence
> >> >
> >> > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
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> >>
> >> -derek
> >
> > --
> > People in the 70's couldn't cum unless there was a wild guitar solo in
> > the background.



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