Line Styles Workspace

Use this workspace to create and maintain line styles that Maconomy uses for formatting G/L report output in RTF files.

A line style is a combination of RTF document styles to be used on the different parts of a G/L report output line. For each line style, you can specify RTF document styles for line descriptions, positive figures, and negative figures, respectively. In the G/L Report Set-Up workspace, you can then assign a line style to each line in the Report Lines sub-tab. The styles that you define in the line style that you select on the line in question are thus applied to each of the output RTF lines that results from a given line in the Report Lines sub-tab of the G/L Report SetUp workspace. The specifications in this workspace contain no information about the formats that are implied by the RTF styles, because you should define those beforehand in a template RTF file. When you create an RTF file from the report, Maconomy prompts you for such a template RTF file, which then functions as a definition of the formats of the styles in question.

For example: In this workspace, you create two line styles: "Regular" and "Totals." The "Regular" line style specifies that line descriptions and positive figures should use the RTF style "Regular." Negative figures should use the style "Red." The "Totals" line style is intended for subtotals and grand totals and specifies that line descriptions and positive figures should use the RTF style "Bold," while negative figures should use the style "Bold Red."

In the G/L Report Set-Up workspace, you set up your report lines, assigning the "Regular" line style on all lines that contain the itemized information, and assigning the "Totals" line style on all lines that are used to calculate totals.

In the RTF file "Template," you define these styles as you want them to look in your reports.

When you use the Create RTF File action, and Maconomy asks you to select a template file that contains the relevant styles, select the "Template" file. Maconomy creates an RTF file in which each output data line is formatted in compliance with the template document's definitions of the styles that are implied by the line styles that you specified on the report line that results in the output line