[reportlab-users] Bulleted Text not displaying

[Roberto Alsina]

On Monday 13 October 2008 16:30:55 Andy Robinson wrote:

> 2008/10/13 Peter Mattingly <pmattingly at mail.csuchico.edu>

>

> > 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.

>

> We probably got it from trial and error, looking through all glyphs in

> Helvetica and Times Roman for something vaguely bullet-like.  But it

> was 8 years ago so I can't remember.

> If you find any "official" bullet character codes in Unicode which

> work better, please let us know...


U+2022 is supposed to be the unicode bullet. It's not on any non-unicode ont, 
of course, so it will be hit and miss with the "default" fonts.

There is also U+2023 (arrow bullet) and U+2043 (dash bullet).

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