Re: Position Paragraph or how to get current position

Hi Robin,


On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Robin Becker <[email protected]> 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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