On Oct 12, 2009, at 3:00 PM, mister bean wrote:
If you're trying to locate paragraphs exactly and keep the content
together,
tables or whatever you might mean by nested paragraphs are not the
right way
to do it.
Use ColumnText, which allows you to place text anywhere and has
specific
provisions for keeping lines together. This is discussed in Chapter
7 of the
book.
If you mean something else by nested paragraphs, please explain what
you
mean.
---mr. bean
It is for resume output. So given the following:
Arbitrary text content as a paragraph
Arbitrary text content as a paragraph
Section 1 Title
------------------------------
Section Entry 1 Title
Section Entry 1 Description with multiple, unknown number of
lines of text
Section Entry 2 Title
Section Entry 2 Description with multiple, unknown number of
lines of text
Section Entry 3 Title
Section Entry 3 Description with multiple, unknown number of
lines of text
Section 2 Title
------------------------------
Section Entry 1 Title
Section Entry 1 Description with multiple, unknown number of
lines of text
Section Entry 2 Title
Section Entry 2 Description with multiple, unknown number of
lines of text
Section Entry 3 Title
Section Entry 3 Description with multiple, unknown number of
lines of text
Follow the rules:
- Arbitrary paragraph content can break anywhere
- No part of any section entry can break across pages
- If the first entry of a section would not print on the same page as
the section title block, then break before the section title block.
The tricky part is the last rule. I am currently creating each
section title as its own paragraph. Then the first section entry is
being added as a child paragraph. The remaining section entries are
added as independent paragraphs on their own. This all works well
until the indentation comes in, the first section entry is not indented.
The problem I see with ColumnText is that it requires coordinates.
I'm dealing with arbitrary text and don't have any coordinates.
Depending on the arbitrary text before the section, the column could
start anywhere on the page. Any ideas?
Thanks a ton for chiming in, Mr. Bean!
-Mike
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