[reportlab-users] Wrapping text -- changing space between wrapped lines?

[Robin Becker]

On 28/08/2012 15:35, Funke, Matt wrote:

> I've got some text going into a grid with tightly-defined space in each column.  Of course, if it doesn't fit in the defined column width, it wraps around, and that's fine.  The problem seems to arise when the text is too long.  If I could reduce the amount of space in between each line during wraparound, it would still fit nicely.  Could someone point me to information about how to do that within a reportlab.playtpus.tables.Table?

>

> Thanks for your time.  Let me know if there's any way I can clarify what I'm after.


You are presumably using a paragraph to wrap the text. The property that sets 
the interline spacing is called leading; by default I think we use 1.2*fontSize 
for leading, but you can alter it in the style that's used. If you are using the 
same style elsewhere then you should create a copy using

cellStyle = ParagraphStyle(name='cellStyle',parent=originalStyle,leading=7.5)

so that the leading change isn't applied where you don't want it.

Also table cells have padding which you can set to zero to increase the total 
area of the cell that gets used.
-- 
Robin Becker