Yes, I did see your suggestion after I wrote mine. You do have a good idea and I'll see if I can do it this way. Ira At 06:12 PM 3/16/01 +0200, you wrote: >Hi Ira > >>> One idea would be rather than making the place >>> name line up in a column have it appended to the date. >>> Then you'd see things like: .... What do you think? Ira > >No - I think my idea will result in a better looking output overall, because it will retain the excellent appearance that you have already implemented - I am VERY happy with the HTML. > >In other words, if the events for an individual only have "single" dates (even if prefixed with "abt", "bef", "aft" etc) then the output will look exactly as it does now, with the left of the place name column lining up, because ALL these dates can fit into the 15 character space that is available for the date. Only if there are events that have "double", or "long" free format dates, will the place for that (and only that) event be shifted to the right. > >I suspect that in most cases "single" dates are way in the majority, with "double", or "long" dates only occasionally being used. Thus in most cases the place column will line up nicely, with ONLY an occasional line being shifted to the right. This is a way around the limited date space, and that is what I meant when I referred to "an acceptable compromise" - Not perfect, but better than having information chopped off. > >In 3.06 you must be using a small formula to calculate the leading spaces you require to right justify the date. If you just remove the truncation of the date string to 15 characters, and substitute your formula with my formula, then you will achieve what I have described above. ------------------------------------------------ Mr. Ira J. Lund E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043