[reportlab-users] Re: reportlab-users Digest, Vol 24, Issue 10

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>    1. outage (Robin Becker)
>    2. Re: Re: Getting the number of lines in a frame
>       (Saketh Bhamidipati)
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> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:23:49 +0100
> From: Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com>
> Subject: [reportlab-users] outage
> To: USERS REPORTLAB <reportlab-users at reportlab.com>
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> There will be an outage shortly on this list and the www.reportlab.co.ukserver
> for a hardware upgrade.
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> Robin Becker
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:33:35 -0400
> From: "Saketh Bhamidipati" <saketh.bhamidipati at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] Re: Getting the number of lines in a
>         frame
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> On 8/22/06, Saketh Bhamidipati <saketh.bhamidipati at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> > On 8/22/06, Andy Robinson <andy at reportlab.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Saketh Bhamidipati wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I need to create documents with headings on the left side and text
> on
> > > > the right side, the headings aligned with the text.
> > > >
> > > >     Perhaps you should say what you try to achieve - there
> > > >     may be different ways to achieve your goals without the
> > > >     need to count the number of lines.
> > > >
> > > >     Henning
> > > >
> > >
> > > Henning is right.  Pretend it's HTML!
> > >
> > > Each time you need to create a new heading, make a two-cell table with
> > > one row.  Put a heading paragraph in the left cell, and as many
> > > paragraphs as you want in the right cell.  Then add this to the story.
> > >
> > > This will also encourage the page breaks to happen in nice places,
> since
> > >
> > > a single table cell is never split.
> > >
> > > Look at reportlab/test/test_platypus_tables.py and its output for
> > > examples of code to build tables.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps,
> > >
> > >
> > > Andy Robinson
> > > CEO/Chief Architect
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> > That sounds a lot better than what I was doing. I'll try the table
> method,
> > then.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > -Saketh
> >
> I'm having some trouble getting the right column to wrap properly. I want
> a
> table of 2-inch width on the left, and 6-inch width on the right. Here is
> my
> code:
>
>             ...
>             self.style = TableStyle([
>             ('TOPPADDING', (0, 0), (-1, -1), 0),
>             ('BOTTOMPADDING', (0, 0), (-1, -1), 0),
>             ('LEADING', (0, 0), (-1, -1), 10),
>             ('FONTSIZE', (0, 0), (-1, -1), 10),
>             ('ALIGN', (0, 0), (-1, -1), 'LEFT')])
>
>     def addTextAndHeading(self, text, heading):
>         # Called thrice for testing the LEADING and PADDING style options
>         data = (heading, text), (heading, text), (heading, text)
>
>         self.story.append(Table(data, colWidths=(2 * inch, 6 * inch),
>                           style=self.style))
>
> Now, instead of writing the text and headings separately, I write them
> together at once in a Table. Though the TableStyle is working well, the
> Table is not; the right column is not wrapping its text. I tested it out
> with an addTextAndHeading("text"*100, "heading"), but the
> texttextexttext[...] runs off the end of the page and doesn't wrap. Since
> the right column width is 6 inches, I thought it would wrap after going
> for
> 6 inches of text.
>
> How can I get the right column to wrap?
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