[reportlab-users] figures and TOC in reportlab 2

[Andy Robinson]

will at phototropia.org wrote:
> Friends:
>      In the upcoming reportlab 2, are the figures and table of contents
> methods/functionality in platypus changing significantly?

Hi Will,

No they aren't.  The ONLY thing changing in reportlab 2 is the switch to 
UTF8, plus various other incremental things done since a year ago which 
are additive.  There's probably a lot of these additions but we need a 
quiet week to go through the repository and make a list ;-)

Are you finding difficulties with them or lack of documentation?  The 
latter I can believe, and in RML we tend to build the t.o.c's explicitly 
using beginForm/endForm/doForm and deferring the drawing of the 'page 
number bit' until later in the document.  I could elaborate if needed.


I realise I have been rather quite so here's the status on version 2.0: 
  we have everything we want running on the "utf8" branch now and have 
tested some major apps against it, including one heavily multiligual 
application with nine languages.  We are hoping to merge this back into 
the trunk and do a "2.0 alpha 1" or some such in the first half of 
April.  We have to time this to not occur during any major release weeks 
for customers (simply because of resources, not because anyone runs off 
the trunk!), and 5th April is a big day (new financial year so lots of 
client apps go live then).  So the best bet is the following week.

- Andy