[Gramps-devel] simple document

[<bm...@ca...>]

Don, all,

I added a new quick report.

While doing this, I note that there are some minor things with the simple
document class:

1/font is not monospace, which looks nice, but has some effects on when you try
to output in columns, as those are based on number of characters

2/the tab distance is very large. I have the impression a tab place is every 15
characters. So if you write in a space of 15, but you write 16, then the fact
you do a tab to have column alignment can mean you columns become very skewed

One could do nicer column layout with a format:
"%-30s  %-15s  %-15s"
but then one needs a monospace font, as otherwise this is plain ugly
Without monospace font, we need
"%-30s/t%-15s/t%-15s", but this can also be ugly as explained above, so perhaps
the simple document can provide some trimming functions?
Trimming would be ok on names/description, but off course, for dates it could be
disaster...

Any other ideas? I do not know the basedoc class, perhaps some extra entries in
stylesheet.

Example: do a quick report, and copy the following text in the document viewer:

Moreno, Abigail Chapman       	1823-03-13  	1853-06-02
??????, Martha                	1790-01-29  	1849-06-27
Adkins, Martha                	1763-06-20  	1828-09-05
Adams, Jane
Aguilar, Eleanor              	1717-00-00  	1760-00-00

Benny

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