[reportlab-users] Splitting paragraph in table cell on '-' as well as white space

[Henning von Bargen]

Richard Galka <rgalka at seccuris.com> wrote:


> I noticed a question about breaking words/strings within a

> table via special characters occurred last month.

> This is something that we implemented and works well

> in our environment.

>

> To ensure long words would break across tables,

> we subclassed the Paragraph class and modified the 'breakLines'

> method to either break on special characters or by using a

> dictionary file (www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3204 in particular).

>

> We are using ReportLab 2.4, and subclassed the Paragraph class

> adding two methods (breakOnSyntax and breakWithDictionary) and

> overriding the original Paragraphs __init__  and breakLines

> methods.

>

> Hopefully this can help someone out, and again, please remember

> this is for ReportLab 2.4 and may not be relevant for other

> versions.

> ...

> code

> ...


You may want to try wordaxe as well
(see http://sourceforge.net/projects/deco-cow/).
It has a Paragraph replacement which supports automatic 
hyphenation (using the Open Office dict files) when line-breaking.

The breaklines code in there is quite complex, but basically
it's the same idea as you use in your code.

Henning