Dive Table printing

[Dirk Hohndel]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Lutz Vieweg <lvml at 5t9.de> wrote:
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> I'd actually prefer to just have a native "print table" instead.
> Converting it to a spreadsheet just sounds annoying. It's not like it
> should be all that hard to print a table instead of the (much more
> complicated) normal dive printout.
>
> Having a mode to just turn off the pretty plot (and just putting a lot
> more dives per page instead) would be a first step. Either a separate
> "print table" command, or an actual print configuration dialog (with
> perhaps something similar to our preferences menu, allowing you to set
> which fields you want in the table, in addition to the "plot or no
> plot" choice).

May I suggest that we allow "formats" that describe the output? This way
people could design the print output that they want. It seems that there
are strong regional preferences (page size, amount of information
displayed, number of dives per page). Other dive log software appears to
simply allow the users to define the layout in some form and then parse
that when printing.

Yes, that's a lot more work than simply adding a second fixed format -
but I think in the long run it adds a lot more flexibility.

Hey, we could output in HTML and allow CSS files to render the output...

/D