printing labels with italics

[wade.wall]

Hi all,

I am trying to print herbarium labels for some plant specimens I have
collected and I would like to have the scientific name in italics,
with the author name not italicized. In addition, I don't want a big
space between the two. Here is an example.

Acer spicatum Lam. where "Acer spicatum" will be italicized and
"Lam." not. Currently, I have the two in the same label box.

Any ideas how to do this would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Wade

 

[Allen Browne]

If you are using Access 2007, you can set the Text Format property of the
text box to Rich Text, and insert HTML codes to italicize, e.g.:
="<i> & [LatinName] & "</i> " & [AuthorName]

In earlier versions, the text box in Access cannot do this but you can get a
rich text from:
http://www.lebans.com/richtext.htm
This one requires RTF codes, not HTML codes.

 

[wade.wall]

If you are using Access 2007, you can set the Text Format property of the
text box to Rich Text, and insert HTML codes to italicize, e.g.:
    ="<i> & [LatinName] & "</i> " & [AuthorName]

In earlier versions, the text box in Access cannot do this but you can get a
rich text from:
   http://www.lebans.com/richtext.htm
This one requires RTF codes, not HTML codes.

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP.  Perth, Western Australia
Tips for Access users -http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html
Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

Hi all,

I am trying to print herbarium labels for some plant specimens I have
collected and I would like to have the scientific name in italics,
with the author name not italicized.  In addition, I don't want a big
space between the two.  Here is an example.

Acer spicatum Lam.  where "Acer spicatum" will be italicized and
"Lam." not.  Currently, I have the two in the same label box.

Any ideas how to do this would be appreciated.

Wade- Hide quoted text -

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Thanks for the reply. I am actually using Access 2002 or 3, whatever
the last digit is. At any rate, that sounds like a solution. Is it
also feasible to split the label boxes and have the author label box
print 2 spaces after the species name, or does this have to be done
within the same label box. The reason I ask is because I don't know
RTF codes, though I understand HTML somewhat. If it is easier to
simply print two separate label boxes, that can be done.

Wade

 

[Allen Browne]

Two separate text boxes is fine. The difficutly is abutting the one against
the other with variable length text, and using proportionally spaced fonts.

If you want to investigate doing that you can set the Left of the 2nd text
box so it moves closer to the first one, depending on the text contained
there. But for proportional fonts, you would need to calculate the actual
space used. Again, Stephen Lebans has a solution:
http://www.lebans.com/textwidth-height.htm

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia

Reply to group, rather than allenbrowne at mvps dot org.

If you are using Access 2007, you can set the Text Format property of the
text box to Rich Text, and insert HTML codes to italicize, e.g.:
="<i> & [LatinName] & "</i> " & [AuthorName]

In earlier versions, the text box in Access cannot do this but you can get
a
rich text from:
http://www.lebans.com/richtext.htm
This one requires RTF codes, not HTML codes.

I am trying to print herbarium labels for some plant specimens I have
collected and I would like to have the scientific name in italics,
with the author name not italicized. In addition, I don't want a big
space between the two. Here is an example.

Acer spicatum Lam. where "Acer spicatum" will be italicized and
"Lam." not. Currently, I have the two in the same label box.

Thanks for the reply. I am actually using Access 2002 or 3, whatever
the last digit is. At any rate, that sounds like a solution. Is it
also feasible to split the label boxes and have the author label box
print 2 spaces after the species name, or does this have to be done
within the same label box. The reason I ask is because I don't know
RTF codes, though I understand HTML somewhat. If it is easier to
simply print two separate label boxes, that can be done.

Wade