[reportlab-users] Line-wrapping in tables

Dinu Gherman gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de
Mon Apr 7 13:07:34 EDT 2014



> Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>:

>

> Genuine hyphenation is hard. Really hard. There is a dump hyphenator

> in ReportLab (lib/textsplit.py), but it doesn't use English rules. It

> just inserts the hyphen at the last place it fits.


There is Henning's Wordaxe which I've used successfully in the past, but I habe no clue if this is still maintained. I remember vaguely it was never on PyPI, but it did a great job. I wonder if it will make the jump to RL/Py3...?

Cheers,

Dinu


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