[GNC] Report - Income Statement - Layout problem

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Sun Mar 20 18:02:34 EDT 2022


I can't reproduce that here. Does that happen with all of the stylesheets? Have you perhaps modified the Technicolor stylesheet so that the Revenue block is smaller than the Expenses one?

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Mar 20, 2022, at 9:51 AM, Carl-Kensaku HERBORT <it at digiene.ch> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The effective nesting level is the same.
> 
> No, I don't need an option to justify columns. I just need the income statement report to look as normal as the balance sheet report (see screen capture).
> 
> I really don't need anything more.
> 
> Have a nice week-end
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> Best regards
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> Le 20.03.22 à 16:27, Michael or Penny Novack a écrit :
>> On 3/20/2022 5:21 AM, Carl-Kensaku HERBORT wrote:
>>> Hello again,
>>> 
>>> I have tried a more recent version on MacOS (Version 4.9 / build ID 4.9+(2021-12-18) / Finance::Quote:-). It solves the first problem of string translation.
>>> 
>>> But the second problem is still there: the width and column alignment of the revenue part is not synchronized with those of the expense part.
>>> 
>>> Do you have any ideas ? 
>> You did not say ---- is the effective nesting level of income and expense the same?
>> Even if so, the resulting report would not be what I wanted in a report in the final form I would be presenting to the board at meetings or having published in an annual report << I used to be treasurer of some 501(c)3 organizations and used gnucash to keep the books >>
>> I suspect that what you want (from the developers) is an option to "justify columns from the right". That's what I would have in the "finished product" reports. In the case of the Income Statement (Statement of Revenues and Expenses --- what a non-profit calls this report) but also with Balance Sheet reports. Instead of writing custom reports* I export and then edit with full control over the level of detail in different parts, column alignment, etc. and can add annotation as needed. There is a lot of detail work** in producing a "pretty print" report.
>> Michael D Novack
>> * I am a retired pro. While not fluent in the language used to create the reports, I can at least read LISP and so soon could be << when you have written in half a dozen languages, what's one more >> But the first time this came up, I was advised not to bother, just export raw reports and edit to the finished product. Great editors already exist so why try to reinvent the wheel.
>> ** For example, page breaks. You don't want them at an awkward place in the report so might want to insert some blank lines to prevent that. You might want top levels or total lines a different font size or bold, et.
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