payee address

[Scott Lair]

On Mon, 03 Apr 2017 20:20:07 -0400
Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> On 2017.04.03 15:35, Scott Lair wrote:
> > Using kmymoney 4.8.0
> > 
> > Looking in my payee address tab I don't see a city or state
> > field. The printcheck template does have city and state, however.
> > Any way to enable these two fields?
> > 
> > I ended up putting the entire address in the address field,
> > however when printing checks, the address is printed as one long
> > string. Is there a workaround for that?  I guess I'd like to have
> > addressline1, addressline2 etc in addition to the city and state
> > fields.
> 
> Scott,
> 
> I have not tried this, but as the template is essentially html, you  
> might try putting <BR> within the address field to break lines.  The  
> normal line break is just white space, which is ignored in html -
> thus the result of a single long line.  The problem with breaking
> down as city/state is that although the names of the fields can be
> translated, I don't know if there is any consistent breakdown that
> would apply everywhere KMM is used.  (Yes, line1 line2 line3 would
> work, but if you don't use all of them in a template, you might miss
> one, and if you do use all, you can end up with extra space that
> doesn't look good.)
> 
> Jack

Your suggestion got me looking in the kmm xml file and I found an
"&#xa" sequence - apparently html for line feed. Adding "white-space:
pre-line" to my paragraph definition resulted in the address block
getting correctly formatted, at least in my limited testing.
Hopefully, it's a good long term solution.

thanks,

Scott