Font size on reports

[Eric Ladner]

Where's the code that spits out the HTML.  I'll take a look at it.

Writing a CSS UI -> file thingie is over my head, though.  It's got a
billion options and you'd only get the simple stuff in a UI.  I was
thinking more like people could come up with "themes" and users could
download and install the theme CSS and select it for a different look.
 Any UI work would probably only be on the level of changing font
sizes, types and colors of typical data, nothing fancy.

The other thing that's nice about CSS is if you're just spitting out
vanilla HTML, that's good enough to style as long as the markup is
done consistently (i.e. H1 for page titles, H2 for section titles,
etc.)  You could get fancy with a little extra markup on the page to
identify data as a particular business object or something similar and
create the CSS based on what's being displayed (every other line
highlighting comes to mind, or negative numbers in a different style)

On 2/13/07, Cam Ellison <cam at ellisonpsychology.ca> wrote:
> Eric Ladner wrote:
> > Doesn't the HTML use a style sheet?  Couldn't that stylesheet be
> > external and customizable (or user inserts own CSS file with styles to
> > their liking).
> >
>
> That's a reasonable solution - for people that have the ability to
> create their own CSS.  Everyone else will need to generate the CSS from
> user preferences.  Care to write the code?  That will also mean
> re-writing the code that generates the html.
>
> That being said, the html code in the reports is a bit clunky.
>
> The easiest fix is to put a style clause in the Body opener (e.g.
> style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt") and specify a different
> font-size for the headings.  Again, not for those without knowledge of html.
>
> Cheers
>
> Cam
>
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