[reportlab-users] Building Paragraph From Database Record

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Robin Becker wrote:


> In the latest paragraph you can use a <br/> tag to force a newline into

> the outcome. Normally Paragraphs treat all space characters the same ie as

> places for splitting or separating words. You shold be able to do


Robin,

   Ah, of course! If I can use html tags for font attributes, I can use them
for spacing, too. Many thanks.


> Paragraph('<b>Head1</b>: text1<br/><b>Head2</b>: text2.....',style) etc and 

> have the text laid out as you suggest. A typical way So I suspect you might 

> want to do this like

>

> text = '<br/>.join(['<b>%s</b>: %s' % (label,self.data(aname))

>            for label, aname in [

>                ("Project name",'model_name'),

>                    ("Project description",'model_desc'),

>                ("Project type", 'model_type'),

>                ("Project owner", 'proj_owner'),

>                ("Project location, 'proj_location'),

>                ("Project state/province", 'proj_state'),

>                ("Lead agency", 'lead_agency'),

>                ("Knowledge engineers", 'keName'),

>                ]

>            ])


   Much cleaner. There's still so much Python for me to learn.


> 	If you want a fixed space you should use &nbsp;


   OK. That, too, is a good reminder.

Many thanks,

Rich

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