[reportlab-users] Problem with row&column spanning code not calculating table heights

[David Fraser]

Robin Becker wrote:

>In article <3F8EA6F2.50001@sjsoft.com>, David Fraser <davidf@sjsoft.com>
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>>I wonder if it would be helpful, when dealing with something that spans 
>>rows & columns, to consider area as the variable in the linear programming.
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>>Just a thought
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>..... I'm fairly sure we don't actually need to do linear programming to
>solve this restricted problem ie find required row & column sizes. The
>optimisation if any applies to layout.
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Right. my thought was just for the case where you have a mixture of 
column-spanning and row-spanning, that you could calculate the total 
area required to display the contents, and then use that to limit the 
height and width when working out the layout.
But I really should re-read all these discussions properly before 
suggesting things...

David