print layout

[Willem Ferguson]

On 17/10/2013 09:33, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> On 17 October 2013 01:15, 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                                   |
>> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>
> dive location? interesting to see more comments from users.
>
> lubomir
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Even though the dive profile gives lots of information, I would expect 
all the standard information in dive logs, including:
IN ADDITION  to the information in above table:

Date
Location
Dive activity
Type of water (Fresh/salt)
Water surface condition
Start time
Dive duration
Maximum depth
Mean depth
* Cylinder type and volume (e.g. 12l steel)
* Start pressure of gas in cylinder
* End pressure

For complex dives (>1 cylinder), information for the different stages 
(marked with asterisks above) would possibly be required??

Important thing is that a clear vision be identified as to information 
in the printed log, then decided what is possible within Version 4 of 
subsurface.

Hope this makes sense?
Kind regards,
willemf