Standard reports look good, but not custom reports.

[adam01]

It seems the standard reports output in html format while the custom ones only allow output in text format (at least
that's what the save box says for a type.)  Can the custom reports be like the standard ones ?
[The rest of the report details how a custom report has to use < pre > tags to keep the $XML variable formatting,
while the standard reports seem to get html formatting automatically.]

Since BS2 outputs its recipe reports using html and preformatted text (the beerXML variables being expanded)
the vertical spacing is quite large.

I found out that the <  pre  > tag causes the preformatted text to begin and end with an empty line. Thus if you are
trying to conserve lines (to fit the recipe on a single page) you get all these blank lines where the generated text is placed.
Could there be a way to preformat these generated text regions with html tags so that we don't have to use the < pre >
tag ? [My previous BS1 format didn't use these, but when I transferred it over, I got no table type formatting of the text. Thus a recipe that had columns: amount, item, type all ran together and the lines were merged into text like this:

amount  item  type  1.33gm  Calcium Chloride (mash 60 min) misc 2.67 gm Epsom Salt (MgSO4) (Mash 60 min) Misc
5.0 gal Seis Lagos Water

Obviously not very readable...]
If need be, I can submit a recipe template for you to see.

  Thanks.

[Conley]

This is what is happening to me, i already posted a thread though, did you figure out how to fix this problem, i am still having it

[adam01]

I found out that there are two report types: txt and html.
The box for types only shows txt and thus I didn't think there was another type.
But if you click on the box and then arrow down, you'll see html.

Now the reports look better - more like BS1, but some tags include a title that isn't necessary.
For example, The tag $MASH_STEPS expands to include

Mash Steps

I don't need that as I formatted my own title...
These tags do the same:  $BOIL_INGREDIENTS and $FERMENT_INGREDIENTS

Other than that, its better.