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Report-only Records


New with version 2.42, a Fingering record can have an "r" in the "Display" indicator - the column following the sequence number (see F Record - Full-Specification for the layout of the most common Fingering record). What this means is that the record should not appear on the screen display, but should appear in any Report that is produced.

This is primarily intended for use with Message F records (see F Record - Message), to allow additional information to be placed on the report without appearing on the screen. One reason you might want to do this is if you placed a bitmap image on the screen (see F Record - Bitmap). This will not show up on the report, which can only display text. You can use a Message record with the "r" indicator to explain textually on the report what the bitmap image displayed on the screen.

You can use the "r" on any F record. For example, if you used it on a regular fingering record (see F Record - Full-Specification), the recorder fingering would not appear on the screen, but a textual fingering layout would appear on the report.

New with version 2.70, reports can be produced in 2 different formats - text (.txt)  and wordprocessor (.rtf). To allow fine-tuning of these reports, 2 new report-only Display indicators are available - "t" and "w". A "t" means that the record will only appear on a text format report, while a "w" means that it will only appear on a wordprocessor report. Records with "r" will appear on both types of reports.

A "w" record can contain rtf formatting commands to affect report appearance - for example, you can turn on the bold font with "\b" and turn it off with "\b0". Similarly, a paragraph break can be made with "\par".