Thanks for replying.
I solved it this way:
Instead of having one column for "2006-01-01 - 2006-06-06" (for example) I
created two more columns:
Column 1 (new)="2006-01-01"
Column 2 (new)="-"
Column 3 (old)="2006-06-06"
The text of each column is alligned as follows:
Column 1 - Right
Column 2 - Centered
Column 3 - Left
This way I achieve "perfect" columns and the distance between the dates
and the "-" can be adjusted by just changing the size of the middle
column. Since the text in column 2 is centered, the distance will be
exactly the same between each date and the "-".
It's a bit more work, but not that much.
Thanks again for replying.
Best regards
Johnny Andersson
Den 2006-06-06 15:12:40 skrev Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Tuesday June 6 2006 06:43 am, Johnny Andersson wrote:
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
There is a possible solution, but it requires placing each set of
dates in a different cell.
Create an additional table content style, and name it (e.g., Table
ContentsR). Use this additional style for example C
( - 2006-0606). The adjust the width of the
column
to line up the hyphen in the middle. While this will not be perfect, it
should be fairly close.
Dan
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