[reportlab-users] Flowing Text Around a paragraph.

[Janko Hauser]

On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 13:21, Harald Lux wrote:
> 
> Sonntag, 3. November 2002, 12:49 robin@reportlab.com wrote:
> 
> > Yes I had a go at this and it seems fairly easy to do it the other way
> > round eg
> 
> > My Problem ........ IIIIIIIIIIIIIII
> > text text text text IIIIIIIIIIIIIII
> > text text text text IIIIIIIIIIIIIII
> > text text text text IIIIIIIIIIIIIII
> > text text text text IIIIIIIIIIIIIII
> > text text text text IIIIIIIIIIIIIII
> > more and longer text lines are here
> > more and longer text lines are here
> > more and longer text lines are here
> 
> that's exactly the way I need it ...
> 
> > since we can specify varying line lengths for the first k lines
> > and the combined flowable can then place the image.
> 
> Up to day I used only only existing flowables so it would be nice and
> helpful if you could give me an example?
> 
We had once a go on this. We have tried it with a chess board like
arrangement of flowables. The problem was that the default behavior was
that no text is placed in the flowable if it does not fit completely in
it. This could we solve, but then we had the problem that there is a
space between the flowables we could only minimize but not completely
remove. We accepted it this way. But it needed a lot of hacking.

So if there is a more simple approach I would also be very interested
into some example.

__Janko