[reportlab-users] TOC fail to display entries

[Robin Becker]

Marcus,

instead of using the raw '<' try escaping as '&lt;'. Paragraphs have some xml 
capabilities so '<' is treated as the start of a tag.
-- 
Robin Becker
On 26/10/2013 02:34, Marcus Silva wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I'm facing a problem with the '<' character in a paragraph when my script

> tries to generate a TOC. For instance, in a set of entries in the TOC that

> includes a phrase like "Amount of mercurium < 20 g per unit" my TOC would

> look like:

>

> Substancies analyzed per unit .............................. 10

>

> Amount of mercurium

>

> Next topic of the document .................................. 19

>

> In the document pages the phrase is shown complete with no problem at all. I

> escaped the character using &lt; but as I said it worked every where else

> but in the TOC.

>

> I'm using reportlab platypus 2.7 and python 2 .6.

>

> Thanks for any help on that.

>

> Regards

>

> Marcus Silva