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journal used as a presentation

Françoise — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:36:42 GMT

Hi,

I use a journal instead PWP.

Inside the outline box, I have the title on two lines. I would like to have the title on only one line.

How can I do it?

Best regards

Re: journal used as a presentation

cwillden — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:53:36 GMT

Hi @Françoise,

Just to verify, the title of your outline box in your journal is wrapping onto a second line and you need the outline box to be wider to prevent that?

My sense is that outline boxes will be as wide as the content within them by default.

If you don't need a scripted solution, you can probably just make the content inside the outline box wider by grabbing the edge and pulling it out wider.

If you need something scripted, you could resize the content or toss in a wide and thin spacer box (e.g. SpacerBox( Size( 700, 1) )) using Append() to make the outline box wider. It's a bit of a hack, but it does the job. Here's a really simple example:

//Run this first and view the result

New Window("Test", << Journal,
	Outline Box("Test OB with a very very very very very very very lonnnnnnnggggggggg title",
		text box("brief content");
	)	
);

//Run this second and notice how the spacer box makes the outline box much wider
Current Journal()[Outline Box(1)] << Append(spacerbox(size(700,1)));;

Re: journal used as a presentation

Françoise — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:32:43 GMT

Hi,

thanks for your answer.

I prefer use the solution without JSL , it's more simply. I don't know how to open the scrit of the journal.

I try to use the grabber but I can't enlarge the edge.

I've joined the journal

Re: journal used as a presentation

gzmorgan0 — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:10:10 GMT

Unless you create a window with an auto stretching box, I know of no other way other than JSL to get the journal outline boxes to have a custom width. This is a modification of last the reponder's suggestion. The attched script was tested on JMP 12, 13 and 14. You do not have to edit the script, you just have to run it. Open a journal, open the script and right click, and select run script, or run the script from the menu bar.

The script finds all outline boxes using a function called Xpath. For each OutlineBox, it gets the text, the font and the size and creates a hiddent text box. From that it gets a size, then appends a spacerbox with that size to the outline box and as seen before it expands the outline box.

The script is attached. I have not tried it, but there is an Add-in called Journal Text Sledgehammer, it has 8 kudos. This might be a help to you. https://community.jmp.com/t5/JMP-Add-Ins/Journal-Text-Sledgehammer/ta-p/21941