[reportlab-users] Is borderPadding supposed to do this?

[Roberto Alsina]

On Friday 29 May 2009 11:52:13 Andy Robinson wrote:

> We don't support the browser "box model" and if you created a

> paragraph with a really fat border ("borderWidth"), the border line

> would extend into the ones above and below.


Yes, seen that too.


> This made some sense with border lines, but I accept that your example

> makes it look silly for an attribute called "borderPadding".  This was

> done to control the extent of the background colour, as the 'natural'

> bounding box of a paragraph doesn't look natural if you want, say, a

> black heading on a grey background bar.    Unfortunately it was done 2

> years ago and is in use in a fair number of projects - usually to have

> a heading set against a solid text bar with controllable padding - so

> changing it now would probably break real documents.  Paul has

> suggested the workaround.


Strangely, I was trying to do exactly that!

I was trying to create a stylesheet that looked like sphinx 
(http://docs.python.org/library/index.html) and trying to pad the titles 
without messing the rest of the document.

I think I have found a reasonable configuration now, unless someone stacks 
titles.

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