From: James B. <ja...@xm...> - 2009-03-08 10:08:21
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On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 23:07 +0100, Benny Malengier wrote: > > > 2009/3/7 James Bridge <ja...@xm...> > > On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 21:12 +0100, Benny Malengier wrote: > > > > > > 2009/3/7 Doug <dou...@on...> > > Benny, > > I've done as you said and all is well. > > > > However the INSTALL file of the tarball really ought > to warn > > about uninstalling any older version first. > > With many other tarballs I've installed it's been > made clear > > if that was necessary. > > > > I updated the INSTALL file to indicate the old version must > be > > removed. This will be present in 3.1.1 > > > > > I installed 3.1.1 from the tarball, into Fedora 10. Gramps > 3.0.4 had > been installed from a rpm so I just removed it first. But it > will not > be so easy next time: just what does one have to uninstall? > > If you do a source install, you know where you installed. Just delete > that directory.. > > > Aside from this all is fine, except that in a note, clicking > on the box > for "pre-formatted" makes no difference now. > > Choose a mono font for your text if you want a mono font. > The meaning of preformatted is to keep your whitespaces in the output > reports, whereas nomal notes that are not preformatted are cleaned > making it nicer in reports. So actually it is not being preformatted > that makes your note look different in the output :-) > The word wrap is now seen also in in preformatted notes, because we > are obliged to word wrap in the reports anyway as users then complain > we write the text off in the margin out of the paper sheet :-), so no > word wrap it gives a wrong feeling as to what happens in the reports. > The note editor remembers it size, so you can expand it horizontally > as much as you want. > Preformatted is annoying from the point of view of html and latex and > makes things harder to print corrrectly, so use it only for those > things you really want it (table layout, verbatim copy of source) > > > In 2.2.x preformatted was shown with a mono font, but this was a > visual clue that is actually not needed now that you can select the > font yourself. > Note that only pdf and print and latex output now fully support markup > in notes, the others will be added in point releases. > > Benny Thanks for this helpful explanation. I am still exploring many of the features of gramps! One of the things I use notes for is to enter a digest of census returns - I treat a census as a family event. So I do want to make a table. However, I haven't found any way of controlling the position of the tab stops, which used to be different for preformatted text. James |