[reportlab-users] Unconditionally split a string at the end of a cell.

[Tim Roberts]

Martin Weissenboeck wrote:

>

> I have a paragraph like

>

>     p = Paragraph('ABCDEFG',styleN)

>

>

> The string does not contain any spaces.

> This paragraph becomes part of a table. Width of the column is (e.g.)

> 5*mm.

> I expected the text to be broken in some lines. But there is always

> one line.

> ...

> I think there should be a simple way to unconditionally split a string

> at the end of a cell.


Nope.  There are no universally acceptable rules to follow on how to do
this kind of splitting.  This is a relatively unusual thing to want --
it's an exception condition.


> Any ideas?


You will have to do it by hand, embedding the rules YOU want the thing
to follow.  It's not really that hard.  You just add a character at a
time until the current string fits.  If the strings are long, you could
use a binary search, but if they're short, a character at a time is fine.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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