Rob Browning wrote:
>
> Jeremy Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I do not believe anyone is working on this right now. There was
> > just a lot of discussion on how we might want to implement such a
> > beast.
>
> Muahahaha... Little do you suspect that in my secret laboratories,
> amidst bubbling shiny things and things that have cushions, I have
> replacements for the profit and loss and balance reports nearly
> working. The solution I'm using probably isn't the one we'll settle
> on long-term, but it's no uglier than the current eperl solution, is
> handled entirely in guile, and preserves as much customizability (for
> the non-programmer) as we had with the eperl templates. It wasn't all
> that much work, so I figured I'd just get it done, so we can have
> reports working again and remove the eperl/perl dependency, and then
> we can discuss how this architecture should be enhanced or improved.
>
> Hopefully I'll get some time in the next week to finish that up and
> generate a diff for Dave to include in his big patch. I can't
> generate a diff against current CVS because my mods in part lay on top
> of Daves. That patch will also have the shiny-new quickfill fixes.
>
well color me wrong... glad to hear we are going to replace the current
reports. More glad to hear we might be able to remove the swig
dependencies. As well as the eperl stuff.
> > There is no support for printing yet. I am sure that is something
> > we will want to add...
>
> Aren't there any decent html->ps translators? It would be really easy
> to spit out latex tables, etc, but we don't want to require latex...
>
> I could also spit out raw postscript, but though I know enough
> postscript to do it, I really don't want to get into the layout
> business right now...
>
*shrug* I think the postscript thing sounds good. Eventually I would
like to use gnome-print but not until it is included in the main stream
Gnome releases. Its not right?
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