#coding: latin1
from lino.gendoc.maker import DocMaker
def body(doc):
doc.h1("Fourth Example")
doc.h2("Using manual line breaks")
doc.memo("""
It seems quite hard to implement manual line breaks with
reportlab.platypus.
This is for later.
For now we just
ignore them.
Fortunately there is a workaround that should help in most cases:
You can avoid automatic word wrapping by using
verses().
The verses() method
is similar to
memo(),
except that it creates
XPreformatted paragraph instances instead of the
standard Paragraph.
""")
doc.verses('''
There was a young man in Japan
Who wrote verses that never would scan.
When asked how this was
He said "It's because
I always try to put as many words into the last line as I possibly can."
''')
doc.h2("Styles")
doc.memo("""
The heading(), pre() and memo() methods
have an optional second argument: the name of a Style to
be used. For the moment let's just play around with some of them.
""")
doc.memo("This text is aligned right",style="Right")
doc.memo("""
You can also get formatting by using the HTML syntax.
This works at least in one case...
""")
doc.memo("This text is also aligned right",align="right")
doc.memo("This one is aligned center",align="center")
DocMaker().main(body)
Output:
pdf
html
