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I have a list of text to be added to a reportlab frame
style = getSampleStyleSheet()['Normal']
style.wordWrap = 'LTR'
style.leading = 12
for legend in legends:
elements.append(Paragraph(str(legend),style))
If the legend is too long, the text at the end is not visible at all. How to introduce line breaks in this situation.
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To add spacing between lines or paragraphs of text in a cell, use a keyboard shortcut to add a new line. Click the location where you want to break the line. Press ALT+ENTER to insert the line break.
As mentioned, you can use 'VALIGN' to wrap text within the cells, but there is another hack if you want to further control the table elements on the canvas. Now adding two components: rowHeights attribute. _argH for finer editing of the row heights.
This may or may not apply but I just learned that \n which I normally use to introduce new lines in Python strings gets ignored by the Paragraph object of ReportLab.
From a mailing list I learned that inside Paragraph you can use HTML's <br/> to introduce the new line instead.
That works well for me.
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As PolyGeo says, you can use <br /> to add new lines to a Paragraph.
Convert new lines to <br /> tags
replace('\n','<br />\n')
Updated code
for legend in legends:
content = str(legend).replace('\n','<br />\n')
elements.append(Paragraph(content, style))
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