[reportlab-users] overflow on table column

[Arkadi Colson]

Will this also break nonsense words longer than one line?

Marius Gedminas wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 02:48:02PM +0100, Arkadi Colson wrote:

>   

>> The string is in a Paragraph but without results. When I have a

>> normal sentence, the line breaking works but not for a string

>> without whitespaces.

>>     

>

> Reportlab Paragraphs don't break long words, sadly.

>

> You may want to Google for existing hyphenating paragraph classes for

> Reportlab, write our own, or you may change the paragraph style to use

> CJK line breaking, which will break after arbitrary characters (AFAIU),

> resulting in texts like

>

>   This is a lo

>   ng text that

>   was arbitrar

>   ily broken u

>   p.

>

> Marius Gedminas

>   

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