[reportlab-users] Handling of too long entries in Table
Dinu Gherman
reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:33:18 +0200
Jerome Alet:
> A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy...
>
> I've studied German for two years, and I seem to remember than
> when written in letters numbers had a tendancy to grow big and
> without any spaces, but maybe I'm completely wrong and my memory
> fails.
>
> That's why I said they weren't easily splittable.
>
> Please correct me.
Oh, if you mean zweihundertdreiundachtzigtausendsechhundertundeins
for 283601, then you're definitely right! ;-)
There is a very much debated reform of German orthography, but I do
not think it allows to split such monster words into their building
blocks.
Dinu
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