[reportlab-users] fixing bugs in 2.2 / Hyphenation support

[jonas wustrack]

Hi Trent,

We made changes to the trunk of our reportlab repository which should
solve the problem below.
Wordaxe now seems to do its job without the need to replace rl_codecs.py.
I tried the tests out myself and they seem to work - hyphens appear in
the pdf instead of ugly black boxes. Can you confirm this?

Best Regards,
Jonas Wustrack

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Henning von Bargen
<henning.vonbargen at arcor.de> wrote:

> Trent,

>

> obviously your message didn't make it into the ReportLab users mailing list.

>

> I waited a few days to see if it appears there and maybe someone from the

> ReportLab staff answers, but since this was not the case:

>

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck at gmail.com>

> To: <henning.vonbargen at arcor.de>

> Cc: <reportlab-users at reportlab.com>

> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 11:32 AM

> Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] fixing bugs in 2.2 / Hyphenation support

>

>

>> On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:27:02PM +0200, henning.vonbargen at arcor.de

>> wrote:

>>>

>>> It was difficult for me to create a minimal invasive integration of

>>> the wordaxe hyphenation library into ReportLab.  The best solution I

>>> could think of still required a minimal change to rl_codecs.py.

>>>

>>> ==> It would help a lot if my version of rl_codecs.py could make

>>> it into the RL repository. I can hardly imagine how this could

>>> break existing code, but who knows... This should be reviewed by ?

>>> the RL people.

>>

>> This fix has not been integrated into reportlab 2.2.  Is there a

>> reportlab issue tracker (BTS) that I can use to monitor the status of

>> this bug?  I could not find any mention of such a thing on

>> reportlab.org or www.reportlab.com.

>

> No, there isn't. However, ReportLab has recently announced that there

> will be one soon (whatever that means).

>

>>

>> As the soon-to-be Debian maintainer wordaxe, I have configured the

>> wordaxe package to automatically replace (cleanly, via diversions)

>> reportlab's misbehaving rl_codecs.py with wordaxe's version.

>

> Does this mean Debian is to include wordaxe in their distribution? Cool!

>

>>

>> Attached is a diff between the rl_codecs.py files in RL 2.2 and

>> Wordaxe 0.2.6, to demonstrate to lurking reportlab developers just how

>> minimal this patch is.

>

> Sorry, but there wasn't any attachment in your message.

>

> Henning

>

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-- 
Jonas