[reportlab-users] <bullet> tag != bulletText parameter?

Dinu Gherman gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de
Wed Apr 16 05:51:17 EDT 2008


Dinu Gherman:


> I've found a suspicious behaviour with paragraphs implementing defi-

> nition lists with bullets.

>

> Apparently, terms (bullets) are not displayed if the following text

> (their definition) is empty or blank. OTOH, this following text *is*

> displayed if the term (bullet) is empty or blank.

>

> This is something I consider to be an asymmetry. Can anybody say

> if this is to be expected or if it should be considered a bug?


I'm trying to create a workaround for this, and while doing so it
seems like I found another asymmetry between using bullets with
<bullet> tags and with the optional bulletText parameter. See ca-
ses 7 and 8 in the attached sample PDF and generator file.

Regards,

Dinu

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