[reportlab-users] nbsp and justification problem

[Robin Becker]

On 05/05/2010 08:11, Anton Petrushenkov wrote:

> Some minor improvements to code (encountered unicode issues on some machines

> for previous version):

>

> So, in paragraphs.py, procedure _justifyDrawParaLineX, after line "nSpaces =

> line.wordCount - 1"

> add this:

>

> # Taking NBSP into account

> for word in line.words:

>        nNBSPs = unicode(word.text, 'utf-8').count(u'\xa0')

>        if nNBSPs:

>            nSpaces += nNBSPs

>

> And that's it. Justification works fine.

.......
well not quite, since you'll get small errors in underlining/strikethrough 
positions etc etc. I have committed a preliminary hack into trunk, but as I've 
said before this whole line-breaking layout stuff really needs shooting and 
re-doing from scratch.
-- 
Robin Becker