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

Dinu Gherman gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de
Thu Nov 8 07:34:21 EST 2007


Robin Becker:


> However, we already have applications which rely on the opposite

> behaviour. I would prefer to remove automatic underlining of links

> entirely. It seems silly to have to colour the link, but not to

> underline it explicitly if that is desired.

>

> As a stopgap I'm adding an rl_config option to control the default

> behaviour; this will be no underlining by default; to turn it on

> you'll need to add platypus_link_underline=1 to the rl_config

> override module (local_rl_config.py).

>

> An alternative would be to add more and more options to the link

> tag itself. It already has enough, although sadly underline

> thickness and colour are not there.


Seems like my previous reply to this didn't make it to the list.
So, yes, I completely agree with that approach, which is probably
the most minimally invasive one.

Dinu



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