Text field alignments

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> > Charles Day <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Fred Bone <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com>wrote:
> >>
> >>> When viewing a register in "Basic Ledger" view, the "other-account" names
> >>> in the "Transfer" column are right-justified. So if the complete account
> >>> name is too long to fit, the high-end ("Assets", for example) is cut.
> >>>
> >>> However, in a "Split" view, the corresponding text in each split is left-
> >>> justified - except when that part of that split is selected. This means
> >>> that, for example, I see
> >>>  "Assets:Current Assets:Savings Accounts:"
> >>> and have to select the entry to see *which* savings account it is.
> >>>
> >>> Is there any particular reason for this behaviour?
> >>>
> >>
> >> I don't know, but if no one responds with a particular reason for leaving it
> >> alone, I will go ahead and change it to be right-justified.
> >
> > I have no idea why it is the way it is; I think changing it is fine.
>
> I'd suggest changing both to left-justified. Without doing anything,
> I'd rather see the high-order bits, the part of the path closest to
> the root of the account tree. I frequently have multiple leaf accounts
> with the same name, e.g., investments in the same mutual fund or stock
> in, say, my IRA and my wife's IRA.

 Interesting situation, but I think this would NOT be a typical case,
and your situation would be easily addressed by adding a bit of
redundancy to the account name. (You could add the appropriate
initials to them, for example).