[reportlab-users] Parsing of <table> & ICU wordWrap

[Robin Becker]

On 03/11/2015 14:38, Buganini wrote:
> Hi,
> recently I am adding <table> support to paragraph, I'm not quite
> familiar with hq yet so I directly commit to my default branch:
> https://bitbucket.org/buganini/reportlab/commits/all
> It works pretty well for my use, unless wordWrap=='CJK', since break
>
> I also had my hack to wordWrap using ICU
> https://github.com/buganini/reportlab/commit/b0bb4a8fc4017cb6d671f006afe151c19b9b2df1
> but it leads to extra spaces, I will rewrite it into a breakLinesICU()
> function recently, based on my table changes.
>
> And I may also add more attributes parsing for <table>, but all of
> them will happen on the same branch because I just need them all, this
> will make it harder to merge back to upstream (if that may happen), so
> before that I'd like to hear some ideas from you.
>
> Buganini
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Hi,

I'm not exactly sure what the use case is here. Form a quick inspection of the 
change sets it looks like you are using the cbDefn stuff to add a flowable 
(table) in the middle of a paragraph like an <img>; is that correct?

I can imagine that people might want to put a table of figures into flowing text 
as a float, but the in line usage kind of escapes me.
-- 
Robin Becker