[reportlab-users] Bulleted Text not displaying

[Peter Mattingly]

For fans of the XML approach this works for that application:

text = "<para leftIndent=32><bullet
bulletIndent=15>\xe2\x80\xa2</bullet>This is bulleted text.</para>"

para = Paragraph(text, style=body_style)
story.append(para)

I got the bullet character from the documentation; Who knows where they got
that, I certainly can't find any reference that that code / format when I
google it.

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Henning von Bargen <H.vonBargen at t-p.com>wrote:


> > 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

>

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