That would be a lot of effort for very little gain. I appreciate your detailed response.
Thank you,
- Dan
> > 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. |