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icon5.gif   ELcode in Summary Text, posted by Dan on Fri Sep 4 20:44:32 2009 
    icon2.gif   Re: ELcode in Summary Text, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Sep 7 15:18:39 2009 
       icon2.gif   Re: ELcode in Summary Text, posted by Dan on Tue Sep 8 22:56:02 2009 
Message ID: 66531     Entry time: Mon Sep 7 15:18:39 2009     In reply to: 66530     Reply to this: 66539
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Question  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.7.7-1 
Subject: Re: ELcode in Summary Text 
> Hello,
> 
>    Thank you for such a great piece of software!
> 
>    When displaying the entries in a log book with Summary view, ELCode is not processed in 'Text'. I know 
there
> is an option called 'Allow HTML", but is there something similar for decoding ELCode in the Summary 'Text' 
field?
> 
> Thank you again,
>    - Dan

Decoding HTML (or ELCode which translates to HTML) in the summary field is difficult, since the text is 
truncated. 
Assume you have some code like

Text
<b>Text
  <i>Text
----- cut here
</i>
</b>

Sot he bold <b> and italics <i> tags are opened, but closed after the cutting line. In that case the whole page 
might render wrongly, because everything after the summary text will be displayed in bold and italics. To fix this I 
would have to scan the HTML code and close all open tags "by hand". But since there are very many possibilities, 
especially if one used multi-column tables, this is almost impossible without writing my own HTML parser which is 
beyond the scope of elog. So the only clean solution I have found so far is to strip off all HTML formatting and 
just showing plain text there.
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