Re: [Gramps-devel] Mixing font style in a paragraph

[Brian M. <br...@gr...>]

Matt,


> I'm attempting to write a custom report and I'd like to mix the font
> within a given paragraph style for events, however I just not having
> any luck in getting it to work.
> 
> For events I'd like to print the event name in bold and the event
> details in normal text all on the same line, yet as far as I can see
> you can only set one font to be used in a paragraph. So at the moment
> I can really only get all bold or all normal.  I tried writing a
> paragraphh within a paragraph but that just ends up putting in a line
> feed where I don;t want one.

You are in luck. The TextDoc interface allows you to specify bold and superscript outside of the paragraph font definition.

It works like this:
   doc.start_bold()
   doc.write_text("this is bold text")
   doc.end_bold()
   doc.write_text("this is not bold text")

See the function definitions for the TextDoc interface in src/gen/plug/docgen/textdoc.py:

def start_bold(self):
raise NotImplementedError

def end_bold(self):
raise NotImplementedError

def start_superscript(self):
raise NotImplementedError

def end_superscript(self):
raise NotImplementedError

I'm pretty sure all the document generator plugin implementations support those functions.

~Brian