Re: [Gramps-users] Problems using style editor for reports/books

[L. L. <lrl...@gm...>]

Benny,

Thank you for letting me know. I may try and see what happens. If
successful, I'll report back.

Norma

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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Benny Malengier
<ben...@gm...>wrote:

> 2009/8/11 L. Laskey <lrl...@gm...>:
> > List,
> >
> > I posted a message yesterday requesting help for several problems I was
> > experiencing using the style editor when creating reports or books. One
> > issue was addressed but not the issue of styling the space above or below
> > paragraphs and headers. Can some one explain why this feature does not
> work.
> > Or, can someone tell me where to find the instructions in the manual?
>
> So you create an odf document.
> I think top and bottom margin are not supported, but the person who
> wrote that piece of code is not around.
> If you are daring, you can try to change the code yourself to change it.
> You should open the file ODFDoc.py in the gramps install directory.
> Just search for that file, and open it in gedit/kate/wordpad with
> root/admin rights (in ubuntu on the command line: sudo kate ODFDoc.py
>
> The code you want to experiment with is around line 684. You see there:
>
>        for style_name in styles.get_paragraph_style_names():
>            style = styles.get_paragraph_style(style_name)
>            self.sfile.write('<style:style style:name="%s" ' % style_name)
>            self.sfile.write('style:family="paragraph" ')
>            self.sfile.write('style:parent-style-name="Standard" ')
>            self.sfile.write('style:class="text">\n')
>            self.sfile.write('<style:paragraph-properties\n')
>            self.sfile.write('fo:margin-left="%.2fcm"\n' %
> style.get_left_margin())
>            self.sfile.write('fo:margin-right="%.2fcm"\n' %
> style.get_right_margin())
>            self.sfile.write('fo:margin-top="0.00cm"\n')
>            self.sfile.write('fo:margin-bottom="0.212cm"\n')
>
> Don't be afraid of the above. The 4th to last line says that the
> margin-left is taken from the defined style, the 3th to last that the
> margin-right is taken from the defined style, but margin-top and
> margin-bottom are fixed to 0cm and 0.212 cm.
> Changing these last two lines to
>
>            self.sfile.write('fo:margin-top="%.2fcm"\n'  %
> style.get_top_margin() )
>            self.sfile.write('fo:margin-bottom="%.2fcm"\n'  %
> style.get_bottom_margin())
>
> saving the file, and restarting GRAMPS, should take the values you
> saved in the style editor to be applied as paragraph top and bottom
> margin.
>
> Give it a try, it is not much work to do, and let us know if it works.
> You could also just fix the values to something else just to see if it
> works,
>
>            self.sfile.write('fo:margin-top="1.00cm"\n')
>            self.sfile.write('fo:margin-bottom="1.212cm"\n')
>
> should be pretty obvious to see.
>
> Yes, as odf is an xml file, it is that easy to change how things look.
> We are looking for somebody who knows odf however, as new features
> have been added to pdf/html/... output and they are not present in the
> odf output.
>
> Benny
>