[WIP] US Patrol Report Layout
 

Working on CSS/HTML layouts for patrol logs based on historic sources:

http://www.footnote.com/documents/28...orts/?xid=604/

It's a bit bigger than the original for on-screen display and will include a few quirks for correct rendering in both Firefox and Internet Explo<d>er.

The style can be used by any patrol log generator and the resulting document can be viewed locally or online (since it's html). It can also be embedded in custom applications.

When it's done I might have a go at a patrol log generator if people are interested (including maps on demand and a more "literary" approach)

Or I could just make it work with SH4 Report v3.1.0.0beta.

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/7388/repg.jpg

Looks good! :sunny:

I will make a special page that will be able to load a custom, hand-written patrol report posted on subsim and display it on the go using this layout.

This will be cool, will keep an eye out for when its ready or if you need a tester let me know.Could be fun if we everyone to write this up and post in a thread, then get feedback.:salute:

<<<< This post is for testing purposes only. Please ignore it >>>

Generate report
http://comsubpac.webatu.com/patrolre....php?p=1443952

[Confidential]
From: U.S.S. Swordfish
Patrol: Second
Period: from February 23 to April 6, 1943

Testing testing testing.

February 11 to March 16: All good. Testing testing testing. This date spans multiple lines.

March 17: Did not dive this morning. Visibility was excellent and sea calm. Had some difficulty in dodging all of the junks and trawlers to prevent being sighted.

0800; Dived on what we thought was a plane contact. After talking it over, considered contact was very likely a flight of three geese. Stayed submerged while a few junks got out of sight.

1000; Surfaced.

Many lighted sampans sighted during the night.

March 18-20: Date interval within same month.

March 21: Make this post span multiple pages.

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[Patrol end]

Version 5.1 of SH4 Report and Version 2.0 of the tool box are available here: http://www.subsowespac.org/subron-14/subron-14.shtml

Thanks for the information! I will look it up if people are interested...

little confused about where to get the patrol tool

Do you mean mine or SH4 Report?

My tool doesn't work with SH4 Report yet. You just point it to one of your patrol log posts on SubSim and it generates a document on the spot.

It's explained here:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=172331

The online tool is hosted at:
http://comsubpac.webatu.com/

The weird domain name is what comes with 000webhost free webhosting. They also have 100GB/month traffic included so I don't complain. It will not suck your credit card details (very often :P)

okay, i thought your patrol report generator was ready, oops.looking forward to it.