How can I create a bulleted list in ReportLab? The documentation is frustratingly vague. I am trying:
text = ur '''
<para bulletText="•">
item 1
</para>
<para bulletText="•">
item 2
</para>
'''
Story.append(Paragraph(text,TEXT_STYLE))
But I keep getting errors like list index out of range
. It seems that I can't put more than one <para></para>
in a single call to Paragraph()
? I also tried setting TEXT_STYLE.bulletText="•"
but that doesn't work either...
The very recent versions of ReportLab have ListFlowable and ListItem objects (check Chapter 9 of the current user guide).
The bulletText argument is actually a constructor to the Paragraph
object, not the <para>
tag :-) Try this:
story.append(Paragraph(text, TEXT_STYLE, bulletText='-'))
Have a look at the examples on page 68 (page 74 now, in 2012) of the ReportLab Documentation, though. The convention in ReportLab seems to be to use the <bullet>
tag, and the docs do warn that you can have only one per Paragraph
instance. We render our bullets in ReportLab like so:
story.append(Paragraph('<bullet>The rain in spain</bullet>', TEXT_STYLE))
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