[reportlab-users] RE: table cell line breaking

[Henning von Bargen]

You can use Paragraphs (instead of plain text) as cell values.
But if a single word is too wide, it will still overflow to the next column
in the current version.

Henning

> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 10:28:44 +0800 (CST)
> From:
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> Subject: [reportlab-users] table
> 
> Hi: 
> the following is making the table, I specify the colwidth,
> the cell[2,3] is too long, how can I make it  automatically go to next
line?
> not to modify the colwidth.
>  
>  
> from reportlab.test import unittest
> from reportlab.test.utils import makeSuiteForClasses
> from reportlab.platypus import Spacer, SimpleDocTemplate, Table,
TableStyle
> from reportlab.lib.units import inch
> from reportlab.lib import colors
> def getTable():
>     data= [['A', 'B', 'C', 'dsdf'],
>     ['00', '01', '02', 'df' ],
>     ['10', '11', '12', 'sfasds fdfg sdg sdgf' ]]
>     t=Table(data,style=[
>     ('BOX',(0,0),(-1,-1),1,colors.black),
>     ])
>     t._argW[3]=0.3*inch
>     return t
> def run():
>     doc = SimpleDocTemplate('tables.pdf', pagesize=(8.5*inch, 11*inch),
showBoundary=0)
>     lst = []
>     t = getTable()
>     lst.append(t)
>     doc.build(lst)
> class TablesTestCase(unittest.TestCase):  
>    def test0(self):
>         run()
> def makeSuite():
>     return makeSuiteForClasses(TablesTestCase)
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     unittest.TextTestRunner().run(makeSuite())
>  
> Thanks
> 
>