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 The above image shows a marriage transcription in a source page. It is formatted with tabs so that the information stays in the relevant column. When copied to a simple text editor the alignment gets changed:- No. when Married Name and surname Age Condition Rank/Profession Residence Father's Name Rank
148 June William Steer 39 Widower Tailor Petworth Henry Steer Blacksmith
26 th Emily Whitcombe 28 Spinster Petworth James Whitcombe Builder In the Report the appearance is different again:-
No. when Married Name and surname Age Condition Rank/Profession Residence Father's Name Rank
148 June William Steer 39 Widower Tailor Petworth Henry Steer Blacksmith
26 th Emily Whitcombe 28 Spinster Petworth James Whitcombe Builder
I assume this is caused by the use of different fonts and possibly different tab spacing. Any suggestions on how to get the Report looking like the original Source Page?
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For most tab-aligned stuff you probably need to use a font like Courier where each character takes the same horizontal space (fixed-width font) - that should sort the problem in a text editor or word processor.
Not sure about how you would achieve the same thing in the report though.
BobC
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This is the problem in that the initial text in GenoPro uses a variable width font. The Text version does not matter (only to show the problem) but the Report font does not behave in the same way as GenoPro.
Perhaps this should be listed as a report problem
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It is generally better to use spaces to align columns rather than actual tabs as tabs are discouraged and may differ between browsers. I have managed to achieve a better fit by using spaces and modifying the font size for Source 'Quoted Text' data in style.css: .citation {margin: 5px; border:1px; font-size: smaller; border-color:black; background: white;}
.citationpic {margin: 5px 275px 5px 5px; border:1px; font-size: smaller; border-color:black; background: white;} |
This gives 
The above was achieved by first pasting into Comment and adjusting alignment with spaces and then copying into quoted text, as the space for quoted text is limited and it is difficult to check alignment there. Using the <PRE> tag would result in fixed-pitch text and would only be of use if the text was prepared in a fixed font before being pasted into GenoPro. It is going to be difficult to fully resoilve this unless GenoPro is enhanced to support input of tabular data, but I will change the Narrative Report in line with above and drop the 'quote' symbols either side of "Quoted Text"
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Thanks for your usual rapid response. I have also managed to reproduce the column display.
All I have to do now is edit out the tabs elsewhere and put in spaces! In some cases this will improve things as there are places where a fixed tab is too wide. Have to look for that silver lining.
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