[reportlab-users] underlining text broken?

[Robin Becker]

Volker Haas wrote:

> I have the impression that underlining text is broken.

> 

> In the below example the space behind the underlined word is also 

> underlined:

> 

> from reportlab.platypus.paragraph import Paragraph

> from reportlab.platypus.doctemplate import SimpleDocTemplate

> from reportlab.lib.styles import ParagraphStyle

> 

> doc = SimpleDocTemplate('test.pdf')

> elements = [Paragraph('blub <u>underlined</u> blub', 

> ParagraphStyle('Normal'))]

> doc.build(elements)

> 

> 

Yes I think you're right. I think the difficulty is that we split into words at 
spaces so that we don't normally have the spaces in the internal representation 
at all so if you wanted

Paragraph('blub <u>underlined </u>blub')

we would have a real difficulty. I suppose we ought to be able to handle these 
cases properly.
-- 
Robin Becker