[reportlab-users] Page headings in platypus

[Robert Young]

Yes, when I did the change for that container it worked as expected,
probably better than what I described as desired below, since there
would always be the edge condition that the new "group" would start on a
page, making me take unusual steps to avoid the "header" followed
immediately by "header continued" on the same page.

My problem with PTO was that the example gives was a single paragraph,
which means I lost the hanging indents and line breaks in my text. I'll
have to experiment with using a PTO container  that has multiple
paragraphs.

- Robert

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[mailto:reportlab-users-bounces at lists2.reportlab.com] On Behalf Of Paul
Barrass
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 6:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] Page headings in platypus

Robert Young wrote:

> Each detail line paragraph is only one or two lines, so it is rare

that

> a paragraph will break across a page. I was hoping that each "DocIf"

> would put the appropriate continuation header when any of the

following

> detail lines is at the start of a page. Or is there some sort of

> container between "paragraph" and "story" that would be better to use?

>

>   

I think the PTOContainer Robin mentioned earlier is the best tool for 
that particular task - the DocIfs were to answer your follow-up question

regarding conditional headers - I guess they could work well with 
CondPageBreaks.  If you wanted to use DocIfs for '...continued' headers,

I think you'd need to insert one everywhere a page break could happen - 
though this wouldn't work unless you forced Paragraphs not to be split 
over pages.  I've never used the conditional elements though, so there 
could be subtleties I've not noticed.

Paul Barrass.
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