new line in report paragraph

Hi,

I am using the report generator to do some simple reports. I want to auomatically write a paragraph of text over several lines. However I can;t seem to find a way of doing this without adding each line of text in turn.

I would like to do for example produce what the following code would to the command window:

sprintf('first line\nsecond line')

however if I to add that as either Text or Paragraph as per:

para = Paragraph();
append(para, Text(sprintf('first line\nsecond line')));

I just get everything on the same line.

I have had a hunt around, but can't seem to find the property I need to adjust or syntax I need to use to get text acrossmultiple lines.

Thanks

Oli.

Answer 1

[Rahul Singhal]

Hi Oliver,

Set the WhiteSpace property of the Paragraph object to preserve any white spaces and line breaks in the content. For e.g.,

para = Paragraph();
append(para, Text(sprintf('first line\nsecond line')));
para.WhiteSpace = 'preserve';

Also see mlreportgen.dom.WhiteSpace format for more details and examples.

Thanks,

Rahul

[Oliver Warlow]

great thanks, i thought I has already tried 'preserve', but obviously hadn't don't it correctly

O.