[Sigia-l] The design of plain text (fixed font) reports

[Heather Johnson]

Paola,
You might try some indenting the progeny lists. It would indicate hierarchy
and make it more skimmable too, if a reader wants to skip a particular
stallion's list.

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Heather Johnson
heather.interactive at gmail.com


On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Paola Kathuria <paola at limov.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Do you know of any best-practice guides to design data-heavy tabular
> reports
> to be displayed in fixed font in mail messages?
>
> I've got an HTML view with in-line styles, I want to create a separate
> plain-text version to send to those who don't want to receive HTML mail.
>
> I'm currently working on a free report of stallions showing the performance
> of their first crop of racehorses. There's a block for each sire. For each,
> its progeny are listed, followed by their race results.
>
> What I have so far:
>
>  HTML: http://www.paolability.com/share/sires-html.jpg
>  Same data in plain text: http://www.paolability.com/share/sires-text.jpg
>
> I'm having trouble clearly denoting the hierarchy of information, what
> belongs
> to what. It just comes down to line style and blank lines, I know.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> Paola
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