Hi, all nice people out there!
I am working a bit with the html editor and as far as I understand I can't
use tabulators when working with html documents, so I use tables instead.
This is convenient as long as I want to allign text to the left, right and
things like that. However, when working with all word processors I know
of, and using tabulators, there is a decimal tabulator or sometimes even a
character tabulator available, which makes it possible to allign text at a
specific character. I can't find an equivalent to this when using tables
where tabulators are not available (like when working with html files).
In this very specific case I want the text to be alligned at the character
"–". I have a column with dates (using the international date format
IEC8601, that is YYYY-MM-DD - have a look at
http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/showdoc.php?page=standards#iso8601 if
you want to) and three different cases are possible:
A. Given start date until unknown end date
B. Given start until given end date
C. Unknown (or not important) start date until given end date
Examples:
A. 2006-01-01 -
B. 2006-01-01 - 2006-06-06
C. - 2006-06-06
Now I want the "-" between dates to be centered in all three cases, using
the same format for each one of them. This will look like this (if it
doesn't look right, please copy it and paste it into a text editor like
NotePad or just change the font to Courier):
2006-01-01 -
2006-01-01 - 2006-06-06
- 2006-06-06
Can I do this at all in a html document? How?
My temporary solution is that I allign everything to the right, then I
fill things up with numbers with the text colour set to the same colour as
the background.
2006-01-01 - 9999-99-99
2006-01-01 - 2006-06-06
- 2006-06-06
9999-99-99 is the same colour as the background... however, when the page
is printed out from a web browser, the background colour is going white
(which it wasn't originally) while the text will remain to be the original
background colour (not white) which makes the text (9999-99-99) visible,
which I, of course, do not want.
Is there a clever solution for this?
One solution I have been thinking of is to skip html, use Writer, use
tabulators and then export to PDF (if PDF supports tabulators). The main
idea with html format in my case was that everyone can read it using their
web browser. I guess I have to leave that idea behind in that case...
Best regards
--
Johnny
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