Non-breaking spaces in tables
Damian Ivereigh
damian@cisco.com
08 Jun 2001 10:19:01 +1000
On 07 Jun 2001 07:37:16 -0500, Bill Gribble wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 03:00:54PM +1000, Damian Ivereigh wrote:
> > The typical workaround to this is to insert a non-breaking space into
> > the cell ( )
>
> ... which is what Gnucash generally does when it creates the table.
> gtkhtml appears to be throwing away a lot of information when it
> exports the HTML.
>
> We don't need to ask gtkhtml for the HTML. We have already generated
> it and it's cached in the report object. It seems pretty clear that
> there are some problems with the gtkhtml export functionality, so
> maybe we should just use the report's cached HTML, which we know has
> all the right stuff in it.
>
> I'm not sure what's required to do this; I'll have a look today.
This would certainly seem sensible until gtkhtml stabilizes (reaches
1.0). Thanks for looking into it.
One of these days I will understand how the reports are produced.
Damian
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