[reportlab-users] Styling within platypus flowables

[Robin Becker]

On 05/02/2014 01:24, Nick Moffitt wrote:

> Tim Roberts:

>> Nick Moffitt wrote:

>>> Hello, I'm looking to write something very like chordlab

>>>      https://github.com/kaj/chordlab/blob/master/chordlab

>>

>> You might be a good candidate for Lilypond.  It is a music typesetting

>> system, using an input much like LaTeX.  It knows how to do tablature.

>> There's a bit of a learning curve, but the output is beautiful.

>

> Thanks, but I'm looking to typeset lyric/chord sheets, not musical

> scores or staves.

>

Can you explain exactly what is missing from standard paragraphs etc etc? I 
realize we can't yet get a standard paragraph to draw the staff (horizontal 
lines) etc etc, but a derived type probably could.


I suppose it would probably be best to create a Flowable that handles your 
'text' and knows how to 'break' and 'split' etc etc.
-- 
Robin Becker