[reportlab-users] cannot split paragraph at first line

[Robin Becker]

Matthias Miller wrote:

> I'm trying to split a paragraph at the first line, and Paragraph.split 

> is not returning any results. Is this by design? Is there another way I 

> should split the paragraph at the first line?

> 

> I've attached a patch that includes a unit test illustrating the 

> behavior, as well as a proposed fix.

> 

> -Matthias Miller

.........
The avoidance of unpleasant splits is why we don't want to allow splitting 
between first and second lines. It is called an 'orphan' the other way round 
splitting after the penultimate line is called a 'widow'. Orphans have a future 
and no past while widows have a past and no future. According to my style guides 
oprhans are bad. In the past widows were also frowned on, but it seems that has 
gone out of fashion and they are allowed.
-- 
Robin Becker