[reportlab-users] Bulleted Text not displaying

[Henning von Bargen]

> From: "Peter Mattingly" <pmattingly at mail.csuchico.edu>

> Subject: [reportlab-users] Bulleted Text not displaying

> To: reportlab-users at reportlab.com

> 

> Code:

> pdf = SimpleDocTemplate("learn_platypus.pdf",

>             pagesize = letter,

>             title="Somebody",

>             author="Somebody",

>             showBoundary = 0,    #debugging, set to 1

>             )

> 

> body_style = ParagraphStyle(

>             name = "body_style",

>             fontSize = 12,

>             wordWrap = True,#THIS DOES NOT REPORT ERRORS ON BAD INPUTS

>                     #Does this even work?

>             fontName = "Times-Roman"

>             )

> text = "<bullet>This is bulleted text.</bullet>"

> para = Paragraph(text, style=body_style)

> story.append(para)

> 

> pdf.build(story)

> 

> I'd really like to be able to display bulleted text, but 

> ReportLab isn't

> cooperating.  Other things I've tried that didn't work:

> 

> text = "<bullet></bullet>This is bulleted text." #displays no 

> bullet, but

> the text works

> text = "\xe2\x80\xa2This is bulleted text." #displays a 

> bullet CHARACTER

> then the text, not what I'm after

> para = Paragraph("", style=body_style, bulletText="This is 

> bulleted text.")

> #displays nothing

> para = Paragraph("\xe2\x80\xa2", style=body_style, bulletText="This is

> bulleted text.") #Bullet character AFTER the bullet text

> 

> This is the last thing I need to get working before I can finish my

> programming.

> 

> Thanks for your help.


The optional argument bulletText is not the content of your paragraph,
but the bullet itself.
For example, try
para = Paragraph("Blah Blah Blubberfasel Blah", bulletText="a)", style=body_style)
or
para = Paragraph("This is bulleted text.", style=body_style, bulletText="\xe2\x80\xa2")

Hint: Don't just read the documentation, also look at the tests folder
(unfortunately not included in the Windows installer).

Henning