print layout

[Miika Turkia]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 00:19 +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> > On 16 October 2013 18:59, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Lubomir
> > >
> > > Robert finally got me to understand his issue. In other words - some
> days I'm really slow, but then eventually I get it...
> > >
> > > This print layout is suboptimal:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Tons and tons of white space, data that is really of no use to 99.9%
> of the users (OTU - way back when in the early days I wanted to implement
> CNS... that was actually hard so I quickly hacked together the orders of
> magnitude less interesting but far easier to implement OTU... which no one
> ever cares about, unless they are commercial harvesters or underwater
> construction workers... so no, that should not be in the printout...
> > >
> > > Can you change this so that by default we get ONE line on top that has
> Cylinder / gasmix / gas used, SAC & CNS, Weight (well, ok... two lines, one
> for the headers, one for the content) and then a second line with,
> Divemaster, Buddy, Suit, Viz, Rating and then lots and lots of space for
> the Notes?
> > >
> > > I can look into it myself if I find time, but my todo list is rather
> long right now...
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> >
> > i can't try squeezing these changes in the schedule, but cannot really
> > promise it as my vacation ends soon...
> > next week = back to work.
> >
> > but the printing framework is in place.
> >
> > i think anyone hacking on the table would appreciated a screenshot of
> > a designed table in something like OpenOffice Calc for reference. i
> > personally hardly understand the needs and the terminology, such as
> > SAC, CNS etc. :\
>
> Like this
>
>
> +---------------------------+-----------------+-----------+------------------+
> | Gas used                  | SAC             | Max CNS   | Weights
>    |
> |AL80 / EAN33 / 44cuft      | 0.46cuft/min    | 30        | total: 12lbs
>   |       (you'll need to calculate the total)
>
> +------------+--------------+-----------------+-----------+------------------+
> | Divemaster | Buddy        | Suit            | Viz       | Rating
>   |
> | Don        | Linus        | 3mm wet         | ****      | *****
>    |
>
> +------------+--------------+-----------------+-----------+------------------+
> | Notes:
>   |
> | Best dive of the trip. No one drowned, we could see almost 3ft and made
> it |
> | it to seven minutes before the first diver surfaced
>    |
> | More text about this amazing dive
>    |
> | Other things that happened
>   |
> | Funny story where the regulator exploded
>   |
>
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>

I really like these dive notes, but please, do not hard-code it :D Maybe
include this text only in one random dive of the printout.

miika
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