Re: Styling within platypus flowables

Robin Becker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.reportlab.user
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On 16/02/2014 22:23, Nick Moffitt wrote:
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>> I'm not sure exactly how the splitting will work with this scheme as
>> our fragment algorithm is quite contorted about where it likes to
>> split when these zero width (onDraw) items appear ie they're not
>> transparent so far as the linebreaking algoritm is concerned.
>
> How much do you think it will count?  Given the above example would you
> expect it to be broken into three lines (as it was by my mailer) or do
> only the label attribute contents count toward line length?
>
I have a feeling that the onDraw callbacks get attached to the end of words 
rather than to the beginning so that might be a problem when splitting.
-- 
Robin Becker
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