Help someone have a field continue into multiple boxes and integrate with the `ALAddendumField.safe_value()` method

[nonprofittechy]

Sometimes there are two boxes on one form to handle overflow, but there's still a chance that you will need a real addendum.

Like:

Why do you need this motion?
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It would be nice to have a function that let you show an arbitrary number of lines of a text box, like:

safe_value(field, starting_at, additional_lines, line_length=80)

It would handle removing double newlines, etc. like the current DAAddendumField.safe_value() function. It could be line oriented instead of character oriented since it only has to handle text fields.

[plocket]

Might we consider a function that let you just specify multiple PDF fields for one variable and have the function or ALDocument method handle using the appropriate fields? [(Or calculating the characters for those fields.)]

[nonprofittechy]

Maybe a function signature would help. I'm not sure what you are envisioning.

[plocket]

Maybe I'm not clear on the purpose of this issue. I'm imagining a method for a ALDocument PDF that handles the issue automatically. I think we already calculate the dimensions of a pdf field, right? A possible example use for adding such a field: some_doc.add_overflow_field( 'var_with_full_text', ['pdf_field_1', 'pdf_field_2'], allow_addendum=True ). You might be able to later retrieve the info with something like some_doc.get_text( 'pdf_field_2' ) or some such.

[nonprofittechy]

I believe the need here is a bit simpler: splitting up the addendum/overflow text into multiple places. It's one text field that has two or more continuations; while safe_value() is currently set up to allow for just one continuation.