[reportlab-users] Paragraph height wrong when using xml font tags

[Volker Haas]

Hi all.

The height of a paragraph flowable is not calculated correctly when 
using xml font tags to change the font size. This only happens if *all* 
of the text  in the paragraph flowable is inside a font tag which 
changes the size.

i.e.
* Paragraph('<font size=30>text</font>', someStyle) has an *incorrect* 
height
adding some "plain" text fixes this:
* Paragraph('<font size=30>text</font> X', someStyle) has the correct 
height

Obviously it would make more sense in the first example to change the 
line height of the paragraph style but this is not feasible for my use 
case.

The effect of the wrong height calculation is that consecutive 
paragraphs overlap.

See the attached minimal example for details. I tested this with the 
current trunk version of reportlab.

It would be great if this could be fixed.

Thanks,
Volker

p.s. Sorry if this mail arrives twice...This seems to be the consequence 
of posting to reportlab-users at two.pairlist.net and not 
reportlab-users at reportlab.com

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