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Tab / Spaces in tables

Asked by Alistair Grant on 2011-05-05

Hi,

First off: Thanks very much for creating pod and making it available!

I've successfully created a report containing numerous tables and figures, but am stuck trying to format some of the table cells. All I'd like to do is include a leading tab in some of the cells of one column, e.g.:

|col1|col2|col3|
|X| with leading tab|Y|
|X|without leading tab|Y|

Returning '\twith leading tab' or ' with leading tab' both don't work (the leading white space appears to be stripped off.

Other variations:
 - '. with leading tab' results in only a single white space between the full-stop and the text.
- '&nsbsp; text' includes the code as text.

Any suggestions?

Thanks again,
Alistair

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Gaëtan Delannay (gaetan-delannay) said : #1

Hi Alistair,
The POD statement "do... from" allows to insert any chunk of ODT code. So you might write something like this, in your cell:

do text
from '<text:tab/>%s' % someContentInAVar

Does it work ?
Cheers
Gaetan

Alistair Grant (akgrant0710) said : #2

Hi Gaetan,

The problem with this approach is that the table is being constructed with:

     do row for p in xxx()

Is there anyway to combine the two? A sort of:

     do row for p from xxx()

Each element would be the odt code.

Otherwise I guess I'll have to construct the entire table as an odt
chunk - not too much trouble, but a bit of a re-write.

Thanks again,
Alistair

On 05/05/11 14:40, Gaëtan Delannay wrote:
> Your question #156089 on Appy changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/appy/+question/156089
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Gaëtan Delannay proposed the following answer:
> Hi Alistair,
> The POD statement "do... from" allows to insert any chunk of ODT code. So you might write something like this, in your cell:
>
> do text
> from '<text:tab/>%s' % someContentInAVar
>
> Does it work ?
> Cheers
> Gaetan
>

Gaëtan Delannay (gaetan-delannay) said : #3

Yes you can combine POD statements the way you like. Just write a first note
"do row for p..."
then, write a second note besides the first one
"do text
 from ..."
Gaetan

Alistair Grant (akgrant0710) said : #4

Hi Gaetan,

Of course. Clever!

For anyone else reading this answer: It does require that the cell text
be wrapped in the appropriate tags, e.g.: '<text:p
text:style-name="P16"><text:tab/>%s</text:p>'.

(Disclaimer: I'm just learning about OpenOffice, including the odt format).

Thanks for such a quick response!

Cheers,
Alistair

On 05/05/11 15:11, Gaëtan Delannay wrote:
> Your question #156089 on Appy changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/appy/+question/156089
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Gaëtan Delannay proposed the following answer:
> Yes you can combine POD statements the way you like. Just write a first note
> "do row for p..."
> then, write a second note besides the first one
> "do text
> from ..."
> Gaetan
>

Alistair Grant (akgrant0710) said : #5

Thanks again for assisting so quickly!