[reportlab-users] More bugs with Paragraph, with underlined links

[Robin Becker]

Dinu Gherman wrote:

> Hi,

> 

> a document in which I had underlined and non-underlined links in paragraphs

> caused me some headeaches and I tracked it down to a bug in Paragraph. It

> might actually be quite related to the one I reported recently. (Well, in

> the absence of ticket numbers you must find out yourself... ;-)

> 

> Basically, if a string contains only a link, it will be non-underlined, but

> if it contains anything else before or after the link, the link itself will

> be underlined. I'm attaching the Python and PDF file for illustration.

> 

> In fact, this makes me issue a feature request since I know enough cases

> where I'd like <link href="spam">eggs</link> to *not* be rendered as an

> underlined word "eggs" in a paragraph. So I opt for a syntax like this:

> 

>   <link href="spam" underline="true/false">eggs</link>

> 

> with underline="true" being the default. This would be backward compatible

> and I could have non-underlined URLs, too, which seem to become predominent

> in the web, anyway, and which make a paragraph much more readable, parti-

> cularly when printed.

> 

> Of course, first the bug should be fixed...

> 

> Regards,

> 

> Dinu

> 

> PS: RL 2.1 used for testing, I don't think SVN ist any better.

.......
Unfortunately, this is caused by a completely different and rather stupid error. 
  The first line is all one style and goes through a completely different path 
to the other. I'll fix in SVN along with various other worries.
-- 
Robin Becker