[GNC] Report - Income Statement - Layout problem

[Adrien Monteleone]

Carl-Kensaku,

No need to dig into Scheme or HTML to fix this.

The devs will address it soon enough I'm sure, but this is a 
'presentation' issue.

That can always be fixed in the short term by either exporting and 
opening in a spreadsheet, or Select-All & Copy/Paste to a spreadsheet.

 From there you can easily fix the first label column to the same size. 
(it might even do it automatically since it will import both tables into 
one sheet)

Many people make their reports 'pretty' using spreadsheet apps. It also 
allows for additional math that would be difficult to write having to 
learn Scheme. (such as Variance columns or other various aggregate 
subtotals)

Regards,
Adrien

On 3/23/22 10:26 AM, Carl-Kensaku HERBORT wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Yes, I know GnuCash is an open-source volunteer effort, hence all the 
> thank you, and answering sometimes to the same questions several times 
> from different people. It's normal in a volunteer project.
> 
> I am myself a long-time grateful and enthusiastic open-source software 
> user and IRL helper (you won't find me in many forums answering 
> questions but I am doing it in the physical world).
> 
> But, I don't think users should be sorry or ashamed to have some level 
> of expectation that a software will work when it comes to a core, basic 
> and widely used/needed function (even if it is an open-source volunteer 
> project). For most SMEs (at least in my country), the whole point and 
> sole purpose of an accounting software is to produce two reports: Income 
> Statement and Balance Sheet (non-multicolumn). It is a legal requirement 
> for most SMEs for the tax declaration and other formalities.
> 
> It didn't work out in GnuCash (so far). No problem, no hard feelings and 
> certainly no blame: it is a wonderful piece of software. And I am happy 
> if it gets solved sometime in the future by some hard-working generous 
> programmers giving their free time.
> 
> But I will not feel sorry or ashamed to just have expectations.
> 
> On the other hand, I am really sorry if that hurt your feelings, that 
> wasn't the intent. My apologies.
> 
> Again, thank you all so much for all your help.