Thanks; I wasn't aware of the \ and \\ commands. This is all quite new for me; I had been using several other commands to create text-files, but never TEXT and related commands.
Hilmar.
>
>set textmerge on to output.txt noshow
>
>\\Line 1
>
>text
>Line 2
>endtext
>
>set textmerge to
>
>
>or simply
>
>
>set textmerge on to output.txt noshow
>
>\\Line 1
>\Line 2
>
>set textmerge to
>
>
>
>
>>I am just starting to experiment with TEXT / SET TEXTMERGE.
>>
>>The following sample:
>>
>>
>>set textmerge on to output.txt noshow
>>
>>text
>>Line 1
>>Line 2
>>endtext
>>
>>
>>will leave a blank line at the top. Is there a way to supress this blank line, that is, begin the output directly on the first line?
>>
>>TIA,
>>
>>Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
