[reportlab-users] Position Paragraph or how to get current position

[Mike Driscoll]

Hi Robin,


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:


> ........

>

> Mike,

>

> our paragraphs try to use all the horizontal space available to them. That

> means the container doesn't control where the paragraph aligns itself.

> That's a problem if you want ragged right and aligned right as I don't

> think we can do that.

>

>

> For traditional left/right center etc (and ignoring any cell padding

> issues) you need to set the paragraph's style.alignment to one of

>

> TA_LEFT, TA_RIGHT, TA_CENTER, TA_JUSTIFY (found in from

> reportlab.lib.enums)

>

> to get the desired behaviour. The default is TA_LEFT.

> --

> Robin Becker

>

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>



I actually figured out a way to accomplish what I wanted. I just created a
custom ParagraphStyle and set the leftIndent parameter to -50, which made
it line up where I needed it. Thanks for your advice though.


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Mike Driscoll

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