[reportlab-users] Feature Request

[Dirk Holtwick]

Hi Henning,


> Perhaps it'd make sense to set up a common SVN "playground" for us 

> such that we can co-work and share ideas and code.

> 

> I invite you as SVN committers for the wordaxe library, if you like!

> Or perhaps ReportLab.com could open a branch on SVN for contributions?

> That way other RL users would find it more easily.

> And BTW this would be a good place to create unofficial documentation and samples as well.


I just modified the Paragraph implementation because I needed to... but 
you are totally right that a combined effort would bring things to a 
better end.

I had a look at your implementation and it looks like a good starting 
point. The implementation of Dinu is clean but I guess it does not yet 
offer all the features the Reportlab Paragraph offers.

All that I need is a paragraph object that takes fragments where each 
fragment can have some style properties. I see this in your 
implementation, Henning, and the general abstraction look usable. Maybe 
one could go a step further and try to to get again more small 
maintainable peaces like Dinu did.

Since my time to spend on this is limited I can not promise to be a big 
help. But I would gladly accept a SVN access to contribute as time 
allows me to. But of course you are also invited to join my XHTML2PDF 
SVN repository or we can just set up a new one on Google Code. That's 
just a matter of minutes.

BTW: The last feature that I would like to implement are borders for 
inline elements. Maybe I add them to the existing paragraph too.

@robin: My implementation gets trouble if used in multi pass. Since this 
is not important for me, I just ignored it there. See 
http://code.google.com/p/xhtml2pdf/source/browse/branches/3.0/sx/pisa3/reportlab_paragraph.py 
  for the latest changes.

Cheers
Dirk