[reportlab-users] reST and PDF using Reportlab

[Dinu Gherman]

Sidnei da Silva:

> There are a few things that im not sure that can be easily done by
> reportlab. One was generating links (external and internal), which
> seems to be solved by the new para.py module. The other two are:
> footnotes and images inside paragraphs. I cant see other things that
> may cause problem atm.

Let me add hyphenation to this list! I did some tests in paragraph.py
to implement hyphenation in Python (using pyHnj and LaTeX dictiona-
ries), but that was pretty slow, of course. The only way to proceed
here is to write a C function doing this. Hyphenation is a critical
feature for many applications where I've seen people being strongly
disappointed with RLTK, which is otherwise perceived as rather cool.

Stuff like footnotes might be easy to implement as flowables. But
I'm not sure the current set of flowables is complete enough. I've
been trying to ensure there are no headlines at a frame's bottom
and found out this is a real challenge in the general case... so
there is probably much more work on flowables needed to come closer
to where LaTeX is.

Regards,

Dinu

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