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#Copyright ReportLab Europe Ltd. 2000-2012
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#see license.txt for license details
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#history http://www.reportlab.co.uk/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/public/reportlab/trunk/reportlab/docs/userguide/ch5_paragraphs.py
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from tools.docco.rl_doc_utils import *
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#begin chapter oon paragraphs
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heading1("Paragraphs")
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disc("""
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The $reportlab.platypus.Paragraph$ class is one of the most useful of the Platypus $Flowables$;
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it can format fairly arbitrary text and provides for inline font style and colour changes using
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an XML style markup. The overall shape of the formatted text can be justified, right or left ragged
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or centered. The XML markup can even be used to insert greek characters or to do subscripts.
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""")
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disc("""The following text creates an instance of the $Paragraph$ class:""")
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eg("""Paragraph(text, style, bulletText=None)""")
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disc("""The $text$ argument contains the text of the
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paragraph; excess white space is removed from the text at the ends and internally after
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linefeeds. This allows easy use of indented triple quoted text in <b>Python</b> scripts.
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The $bulletText$ argument provides the text of a default bullet for the paragraph.
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The font and other properties for the paragraph text and bullet are set using the style argument.
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""")
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disc("""
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The $style$ argument should be an instance of class $ParagraphStyle$ obtained typically
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using""")
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eg("""
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from reportlab.lib.styles import ParagraphStyle
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""")
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disc("""
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this container class provides for the setting of multiple default paragraph attributes
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in a structured way. The styles are arranged in a dictionary style object called a $stylesheet$
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which allows for the styles to be accessed as $stylesheet['BodyText']$. A sample style
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sheet is provided.
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""")
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eg("""
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from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet
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stylesheet=getSampleStyleSheet()
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normalStyle = stylesheet['Normal']
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""")
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disc("""
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The options which can be set for a $Paragraph$ can be seen from the $ParagraphStyle$ defaults.
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""")
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heading4("$class ParagraphStyle$")
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eg("""
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class ParagraphStyle(PropertySet):
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    defaults = {
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        'fontName':'Times-Roman',
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        'fontSize':10,
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        'leading':12,
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        'leftIndent':0,
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        'rightIndent':0,
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        'firstLineIndent':0,
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        'alignment':TA_LEFT,
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        'spaceBefore':0,
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        'spaceAfter':0,
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        'bulletFontName':'Times-Roman',
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        'bulletFontSize':10,
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        'bulletIndent':0,
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        'textColor': black,
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        'backColor':None,
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        'wordWrap':None,
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        'borderWidth': 0,
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        'borderPadding': 0,
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        'borderColor': None,
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        'borderRadius': None,
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        'allowWidows': 1,
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        'allowOrphans': 0,
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        }
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""")
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heading2("Using Paragraph Styles")
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#this will be used in the ParaBox demos.
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sample = """You are hereby charged that on the 28th day of May, 1970, you did
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willfully, unlawfully, and with malice of forethought, publish an
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alleged English-Hungarian phrase book with intent to cause a breach
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of the peace.  How do you plead?"""
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disc("""The $Paragraph$ and $ParagraphStyle$ classes together
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handle most common formatting needs. The following examples
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draw paragraphs in various styles, and add a bounding box
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so that you can see exactly what space is taken up.""")
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s1 = ParagraphStyle('Normal')
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parabox(sample, s1, 'The default $ParagraphStyle$')
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disc("""The two attributes $spaceBefore$ and $spaceAfter$ do what they
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say, except at the top or bottom of a frame. At the top of a frame,
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$spaceBefore$ is ignored, and at the bottom, $spaceAfter$ is ignored.
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This means that you could specify that a 'Heading2' style had two
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inches of space before when it occurs in mid-page, but will not
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should be thought of as 'requests' to the Frame and are not part
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of the space occupied by the Paragraph itself.""")
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20% larger than the point size.  To get double-spaced text,
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use a high $leading$. If you set $autoLeading$(default $"off"$) to $"min"$(use observed leading even if smaller than specified) or $"max"$(use the larger of observed and specified) then an attempt is made to determine the leading
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on a line by line basis. This may be useful if the lines contain different font sizes etc.""")
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disc("""The figure below shows space before and after and an
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increased leading:""")
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        ParagraphStyle('Spaced',
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                       spaceBefore=6,
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                       spaceAfter=6,
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                       leading=16),
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        'Space before and after and increased leading'
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disc("""The attribute $borderPadding$ adjusts the padding between the paragraph and the border of its background.
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These values are applied the same way as in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
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If a single value is given, that value is applied to all four sides.
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If more than one value is given, they are applied in clockwise order to the sides starting at the top.
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If two or three values are given, the missing values are taken from the opposite side(s).
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Note that in the following example the yellow box is drawn by the paragraph itself.""")
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        ParagraphStyle('padded',
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                       borderPadding=(7, 2, 20),
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                       borderColor='#000000',
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                       borderWidth=1,
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                       backColor='#FFFF00'),
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        'Variable padding'
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        )
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first line. If you want a straight left edge, remember
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to set $firstLineIndent$ equal to 0.""")
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        ParagraphStyle('indented',
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                       firstLineIndent=+24,
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                       leftIndent=24,
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                       rightIndent=24),
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        'one third inch indents at left and right, two thirds on first line'
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        )
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disc("""Setting $firstLineIndent$ equal to a negative number, $leftIndent$
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much higher, and using a
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different font (we'll show you how later!) can give you a
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definition list:.""")
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parabox('<b><i>Judge Pickles: </i></b>' + sample,
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        ParagraphStyle('dl',
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                       leftIndent=36),
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        'Definition Lists'
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disc("""There are four possible values of $alignment$, defined as
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constants in the module <i>reportlab.lib.enums</i>.  These are
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TA_JUSTIFY, with values of 0, 1, 2 and 4 respectively.  These
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do exactly what you would expect.""")
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disc("""Set $wordWrap$ to $'CJK'$ to get Asian language linewrapping. For normal western text you can change the way
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the line breaking algorithm handles <i>widows</i> and <i>orphans</i> with the $allowWidows$ and $allowOrphans$ values.
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Both should normally be set to $0$, but for historical reasons we have allowed <i>widows</i>.
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The default color of the text can be set with $textColor$ and the paragraph background
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colour can be set with $backColor$. The paragraph's border properties may be changed using
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$borderWidth$, $borderPadding$, $borderColor$ and $borderRadius$.""")
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heading2("Paragraph XML Markup Tags")
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disc("""XML markup can be used to modify or specify the
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overall paragraph style, and also to specify intra-
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paragraph markup.""")
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heading3("The outermost &lt; para &gt; tag")
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disc("""
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The paragraph text may optionally be surrounded by
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&lt;para attributes....&gt;
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&lt;/para&gt;
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tags. The attributes if any of the opening &lt;para&gt; tag affect the style that is used
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with the $Paragraph$ $text$ and/or $bulletText$.
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disc(" ")
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from reportlab.platypus.paraparser import _addAttributeNames, _paraAttrMap, _bulletAttrMap
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def getAttrs(A):
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    _addAttributeNames(A)
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    S={}
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    for k, v in list(A.items()):
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        if a not in S:
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            S[a] = k
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        else:
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            S[a] = "%s, %s" %(S[a],k)
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    K = list(S.keys())
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    K.sort()
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    D=[('Attribute','Synonyms')]
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    for k in K:
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        D.append((k,S[k]))
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    rows=len(D)*[None]
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    return D,cols,rows
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t=Table(*getAttrs(_paraAttrMap))
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t.setStyle(TableStyle([
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            ('FONT',(0,0),(-1,1),'Times-Bold',10,12),
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            ('FONT',(0,1),(-1,-1),'Courier',8,8),
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            ('VALIGN',(0,0),(-1,-1),'MIDDLE'),
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            ('INNERGRID', (0,0), (-1,-1), 0.25, colors.black),
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            ('BOX', (0,0), (-1,-1), 0.25, colors.black),
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            ]))
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getStory().append(t)
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caption("""Table <seq template="%(Chapter)s-%(Table+)s"/> - Synonyms for style attributes""")
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disc("""Some useful synonyms have been provided for our Python attribute
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names, including lowercase versions, and the equivalent properties
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from the HTML standard where they exist.  These additions make
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it much easier to build XML-printing applications, since
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much intra-paragraph markup may not need translating. The
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table below shows the allowed attributes and synonyms in the
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outermost paragraph tag.""")
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heading2("Intra-paragraph markup")
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disc("""'<![CDATA[Within each paragraph, we use a basic set of XML tags
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to provide markup.  The most basic of these are bold (<b>...</b>),
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italic (<i>...</i>) and underline (<u>...</u>).
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Other tags which are allowed are strong (<strong>...</strong>), and strike through (<strike>...</strike>). The <link> and <a> tags
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may be used to refer to URIs, documents or bookmarks in the current document. The a variant of the <a> tag can be used to
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mark a position in a document.
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A break (<br/>) tag is also allowed.]]>
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parabox2("""<b>You are hereby charged</b> that on the 28th day of May, 1970, you did
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willfully, unlawfully, and <i>with malice of forethought</i>, publish an
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alleged English-Hungarian phrase book with intent to cause a breach
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of the peace.  <u>How do you plead</u>?""", "Simple bold and italic tags")
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parabox2("""This <a href="#MYANCHOR" color="blue">is a link to</a> an anchor tag ie <a name="MYANCHOR"/><font color="green">here</font>.
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This <link href="#MYANCHOR" color="blue" fontName="Helvetica">is another link to</link> the same anchor tag.""",
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"anchors and links")
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disc("""The <b>link</b> tag can be used as a reference, but
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not as an anchor. The a and link hyperlink tags have additional attributes <i>fontName</i>,
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<i>fontSize</i>, <i>color</i> &amp; <i>backColor</i> attributes.
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The hyperlink reference can have a scheme of <b>http:</b><i>(external webpage)</i>, <b>pdf:</b><i>(different pdf document)</i> or 
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<b>document:</b><i>(same pdf document)</i>; a missing scheme is treated as <b>document</b> as is the case when the reference starts with # (in which case the anchor should omit it). Any other scheme is treated as some kind of URI.
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""")
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parabox2("""<strong>You are hereby charged</strong> that on the 28th day of May, 1970, you did
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willfully, unlawfully, <strike>and with malice of forethought</strike>, <br/>publish an
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of the peace. How do you plead?""", "Strong, strike, and break tags")
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heading3("The $&lt;font&gt;$ tag")
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disc("""The $&lt;font&gt;$ tag can be used to change the font name,
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size and text color for any substring within the paragraph.
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Legal attributes are $size$, $face$, $name$ (which is the same as $face$),
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$color$, and $fg$ (which is the same as $color$). The $name$ is
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the font family name, without any 'bold' or 'italic' suffixes.
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Colors may be
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HTML color names or a hex string encoded in a variety of ways;
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see ^reportlab.lib.colors^ for the formats allowed.""")
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parabox2("""<font face="times" color="red">You are hereby charged</font> that on the 28th day of May, 1970, you did
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willfully, unlawfully, and <font size=14>with malice of forethought</font>,
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publish an
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of the peace.  How do you plead?""", "The $font$ tag")
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heading3("Superscripts and Subscripts")
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disc("""Superscripts and subscripts are supported with the
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<![CDATA[<super> and <sub> tags, which work exactly
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as you might expect.  In addition, most greek letters
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can be accessed by using the <greek></greek>
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tag, or with mathML entity names.]]>""")
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##parabox2("""<greek>epsilon</greek><super><greek>iota</greek>
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##<greek>pi</greek></super> = -1""", "Greek letters and subscripts")
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parabox2("""Equation (&alpha;): <greek>e</greek> <super><greek>ip</greek></super>  = -1""",
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         "Greek letters and superscripts")
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heading3("Inline Images")
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disc("""We can embed images in a paragraph with the 
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&lt;img/&gt; tag which has attributes $src$, $width$, $height$ whose meanings are obvious. The $valign$ attribute may be set to a css like value from
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"baseline", "sub", "super", "top", "text-top", "middle", "bottom", "text-bottom"; the value may also be a numeric percentage or an absolute value.
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""")
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parabox2("""<para autoLeading="off" fontSize=12>This &lt;img/&gt; <img src="../images/testimg.gif" valign="top"/> is aligned <b>top</b>.<br/><br/>
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This &lt;img/&gt; <img src="../images/testimg.gif" valign="bottom"/> is aligned <b>bottom</b>.<br/><br/>
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This &lt;img/&gt; <img src="../images/testimg.gif" valign="middle"/> is aligned <b>middle</b>.<br/><br/>
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This &lt;img/&gt; <img src="../images/testimg.gif" valign="-4"/> is aligned <b>-4</b>.<br/><br/>
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This &lt;img/&gt; <img src="../images/testimg.gif" valign="+4"/> is aligned <b>+4</b>.<br/><br/>
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This &lt;img/&gt; <img src="../images/testimg.gif" width="10"/> has width <b>10</b>.<br/><br/>
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</para>""","Inline images")
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heading3("Numbering Paragraphs and Lists")
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disc("""The $&lt;seq&gt;$ tag provides comprehensive support
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for numbering lists, chapter headings and so on.  It acts as
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an interface to the $Sequencer$ class in ^reportlab.lib.sequencer^.
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These are used to number headings and figures throughout this
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document.
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You may create as many separate 'counters' as you wish, accessed
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with the $id$ attribute; these will be incremented by one each
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time they are accessed.  The $seqreset$ tag resets a counter.
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If you want it to resume from a number other than 1, use
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the syntax &lt;seqreset id="mycounter" base="42"&gt;.
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Let's have a go:""")
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parabox2("""<seq id="spam"/>, <seq id="spam"/>, <seq id="spam"/>.
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Reset<seqreset id="spam"/>.  <seq id="spam"/>, <seq id="spam"/>,
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<seq id="spam"/>.""",  "Basic sequences")
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disc("""You can save specifying an ID by designating a counter ID
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as the <i>default</i> using the &lt;seqdefault id="Counter"&gt;
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tag; it will then be used whenever a counter ID
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is not specified.  This saves some typing, especially when
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doing multi-level lists; you just change counter ID when
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stepping in or out a level.""")
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parabox2("""<seqdefault id="spam"/>Continued... <seq/>,
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<seq/>, <seq/>, <seq/>, <seq/>, <seq/>, <seq/>.""",
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"The default sequence")
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disc("""Finally, one can access multi-level sequences using
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a variation of Python string formatting and the $template$
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attribute in a &lt;seq&gt; tags.  This is used to do the
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captions in all of the figures, as well as the level two
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headings.  The substring $%(counter)s$ extracts the current
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value of a counter without incrementing it; appending a
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plus sign as in $%(counter)s$ increments the counter.
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The figure captions use a pattern like the one below:""")
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parabox2("""Figure <seq template="%(Chapter)s-%(FigureNo+)s"/> - Multi-level templates""",
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"Multi-level templates")
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disc("""We cheated a little - the real document used 'Figure',
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but the text above uses 'FigureNo' - otherwise we would have
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messed up our numbering!""")
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heading2("Bullets and Paragraph Numbering")
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disc("""In addition to the three indent properties, some other
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parameters are needed to correctly handle bulleted and numbered
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lists.  We discuss this here because you have now seen how
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to handle numbering.  A paragraph may have an optional
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^bulletText^ argument passed to its constructor; alternatively,
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bullet text may be placed in a $<![CDATA[<bullet>..</bullet>]]>$
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tag at its head.  This text will be drawn on the first line of
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the paragraph, with its x origin determined by the $bulletIndent$
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attribute of the style, and in the font given in the
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$bulletFontName$ attribute.   The "bullet" may be a single character
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such as (doh!) a bullet, or a fragment of text such as a number in
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some numbering sequence, or even a short title as used in a definition
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list.   Fonts may offer various bullet
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characters but we suggest first trying the Unicode bullet ($&bull;$), which may
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be written as $&amp;bull;$,  $&amp;#x2022;$ or (in utf8) $\\xe2\\x80\\xa2$):""")
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t=Table(*getAttrs(_bulletAttrMap))
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t.setStyle([
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            ('FONT',(0,0),(-1,1),'Times-Bold',10,12),
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            ('FONT',(0,1),(-1,-1),'Courier',8,8),
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            ('VALIGN',(0,0),(-1,-1),'MIDDLE'),
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            ('INNERGRID', (0,0), (-1,-1), 0.25, colors.black),
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            ('BOX', (0,0), (-1,-1), 0.25, colors.black),
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            ])
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getStory().append(t)
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caption("""Table <seq template="%(Chapter)s-%(Table+)s"/> - &lt;bullet&gt; attributes &amp; synonyms""")
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disc("""The &lt;bullet&gt; tag is only allowed once in a given paragraph and its use
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overrides the implied bullet style and ^bulletText^ specified in the  ^Paragraph^
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creation.
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""")
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parabox("""<bullet>\xe2\x80\xa2</bullet>this is a bullet point.  Spam
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spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam
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spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam """,
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        styleSheet['Bullet'],
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        'Basic use of bullet points')
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disc("""Exactly the same technique is used for numbers,
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except that a sequence tag is used.  It is also possible
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to put  a multi-character string in the bullet; with a deep
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indent and bold bullet font, you can make a compact
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definition list.""")