Variables of type 'string' rendered without spaces

[michaellisitsa]

Were a variable is declared with a 'string' and then rendered, the string is shown with all spaces removed.

How to reproduce

• declare a variable
  name = "John Smith"
• Render the variable
  

Expected behaviour
Show with a space.

Setup
Handcalcs 1.1.3
MacOS High Sierra
Jupyter Notebook

[connorferster]

Hi @michaellisitsa,

Dealing with multi-word text strings is a limited in handcalcs. Currently they are only handled within comments. I have run into this issue in my own scripts where I want to indicate a "flag" or something during the calculations. I have adapted the calculations to either use single words, descriptive subscripted variables, or booleans.

However, given your post to the Showcase (#50), I have a sense of what you may be trying to achieve. For creating a title block, I like to create a new Python module on my system to have a bunch of functions that I can pull into any new notebook, including this function:

from IPython.display import HTML

def title_block(
    name: str,
    proj: str,
    date: str,
    design: str,
    size: str = "1.5em"
):
    # This can be used to create a "title block" in your notebooks
    # before you start your calculations
    html_title = f"""
     <table style="width:100%; font-size:{size}; border:1px;">
          <tr>
            <td style="width:15%; text-align:right; font-weight:bold">Name: </td>
            <td style="width:35%; text_align:right">{name}</td>
            <td style="width:15%; text-align:right; font-weight:bold">Date: </td>
            <td style="width:35%; text_align:right">{date}</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td style="width:15%; text-align:right; font-weight:bold">Project: </td>
            <td style="width:35%; text_align:right">{proj}</td>
            <td style="width:15%; text-align:right; font-weight:bold">Design: </td>
            <td style="width:35%; text_align:right">{design}</td>
          </tr>
    </table> 
    """
    display(HTML(html_title))

Here is an example of the export to HTML and PDF printed in Chrome:

You can get even fancier and include your company logo in the title block, also!

[michaellisitsa]

Thanks. It never crossed my mind to use HTML within a .py function. This would be useful when using PaperMill, where you may not want to manually edit the Markdown cells with separate headers.

[connorferster]

Oooh...that's a good call. I have not thought to parameterize my Markdown headers yet...Nice one!

[connorferster]

Going to close this issue for now. Still a problem but I do not anticipate fixing it unless it eventually becomes a major issue.