[reportlab-users] Wordaxe 0.3.0, ReportLab 2.2, MultiBuild and splitting error

[Harald Armin Massa]

Hello,

on updating some projekt to RL 2.2; and wordaxe 0.3.0, I ran into some
obscure wrapping / splitting bug.

As it turned out:

the SplitRoutine within NewParagraph get's problems when doc.multibuild is used.

I tracked it down to:

        if not hasattr(self, "_lines"):
            # This can only happen when split has been called
            # without a previous wrap for this Paragraph.
            # From looking at doctemplate.py and frames.py,
            # I assume this is only the case if the free space
            # in the frame is not even enough for getSpaceBefore.
            # Thus we can safely return []
            #~ print "split without previous wrap"
            return []

NewParagraph of Wordaxe relying on self._lines NOT being present when
there was no "wrap" in the actual build pass, to return "I cannot
split"

BUT...

in a multibuild, in the second build pass that self._lines is present
from the first build pass ... , and _unused is an empty list (as some
wraps from the build pass before have used up everything)

So MY fix was in doctemplate multibuild:

            #clean up so multi-build does not go wrong - the frame
            #packer might have tacked an attribute onto some flowables
            for elem in story:
                if hasattr(elem, '_postponed'):
                    del elem._postponed
                if hasattr(elem, '_lines'):
                    del elem._lines

to extend the "cleanup" part to also delete the _lines attribute of a
NewParagraph; together with the _postponed attribut.

So everything works fine ... but I am not sure if this is really the
best approach, and the NewParagraph split/wrap is quite to challenging
to really be sure.

That's why I am posting this fix for others to enjoy and for more
enlightened ones to check:)

Harald

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