RE: [ubl-fpsc] Metrics for real-estate on the page

["Jean McInerney" <jean@freasley.freeserve.co.uk>]

Ken

We could produce an image of a form similar to the UNeDocs FFI which shows
how many lines and number of character allowed for each individual cell.
The FFI can be found on the UNeDocs website and is titled 'Document form in
PDF, with document data length', the link to this form appears to have a
problem
http://www.unece.org/etrades/unedocs/ffimodel/ffi/paperlk/formdata.pdf.
I do have a copy, shall I zip the PDF file and post it to the group.

regards Jean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com]
> Sent: 28 April 2003 21:18
> To: UBL FPSC
> Subject: [ubl-fpsc] Metrics for real-estate on the page
>
>
> I'm curious, Jean, how the metrics work in a UBL layout for the
> height and
> length of a field of characters filled in by a user.
>
> For example, I can picture the "Seller" field to be, say, five lines deep
> and half of the page wide.  But how best would we express the width in a
> formatting specification?  By a percentage of the width of the
> table?  By a
> number of characters?
>
> For each "cell" or box in a laid-out form I would like to document to the
> reader:
>
> (1) how many groups are expected in the box (which is typically one but
> could be quite a few for the line items box of a continuation page),
>
> (2) how many lines of text fit in the box
>
> (3) how much text to put on the line (either by number of characters,
> absolute width, percentage width, whatever you suggest)
>
> What would you recommend, and do you think I have missed any metric we
> would need to document?
>
> What would others recommend we use for metrics for the contents of boxes?
>
> ............... Ken
>
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