[GNC] I just need a line feed

Steve Cohen stevecoh2 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 15:47:34 EST 2019


I'm not a developer of gnucash so take this with a grain of salt, but 
putting a '\n' where you want the line feed might work.  If you're on 
windows, you might need to do '\n\r'.  Try it, maybe it's a help to you, 
but no guarantees.

On 2/7/19 2:34 PM, Richard Marmor wrote:
>     On 1/27 I posted the request for help below to which there have been
>     no replies.  Is there no one out there who understands .SCM files?
>     Help . . .
>     -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>     ------------------
>     In Gnucash 2.6.21, the standard report title for an Income Statement
>     appears as:
>     [Company Name][Report Title] For Period Covering [start date] to [end
>     date]
>     all on one long line, which for my purposes is too lengthy.
>     In the report's generator file, income-statement.scm, I found this:
>     (gnc:html-document-set-title!
>      doc (sprintf #f
>              (string-append "%s %s "
>                       (_ "For Period Covering %s to %s"))
>              company-name report-title
>                    (gnc-print-date start-date-printable)
>                    (gnc-print-date end-date-tp)))
>     Can someone please tell me how to modify that to insert a line feed
>     so the report title will appear on two lines as:
>                [Company Name][Report Title]
>                 For Period Covering [start date] to [end date]
>     I am not a programmer.  I tried reading some of the help information
>     among the SCM files, but frankly it was all Greek to me. Help would
>     be appreciated.
>     Thank you!
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