why gc invoices are not lacking

[Mark Hanford]

I agree - I don't think building a report-writer is where this needs
to go, just an easier way of dropping in a template of some sort with
place-holders that get replaced by GC.

I like the HTML/CSS idea, because that is a set of tech that's known
by a wider community, so I can find someone that can build a skeleton
HTML page easier than I can find someone that can write code -
certainly more than Scheme. I am biased though, because I know
HTML/CSS and not Scheme :)

I think a user would (at least should) be happy to learn HTML, CSS or
something like LaTeX if the process of getting that "into" my GC is a
simple "drop a file in here" - currently creating custom reports for
example is not trivial.

On 17 September 2013 16:12, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> Mark Hanford <mark at hanfordonline.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Depends on if the GC community wants non-developers using GC
>> effectively. There's no need for ANY wysiwyg software at all, and yet
>> they're oddly prevalent.
>
> That doesn't mean that GnuCash needs to be (or SHOULD be) a WYSIWYG
> editor.  The right approach is following through with e-guile, which
> would let you provide your own HTML/CSS-based template to make your
> reports (including the invoice report) look however you want it to look.
>
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> -derek
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