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Tab in Texts

Asked by Dolgener on 2012-09-26

New to POD, I just can't figure out how to encode a horizontal tab.
Neither '<text:tab/>' (as found in 156089) nor '\t' seems to do the job.

replacement = {'record': 'Doe, Joe\t0815'}
renderer = Renderer('my_template.odt', replacement, 'my_list.odt')

would be a simple example.
Actual result is "Doe, Joe 0815" (just a space instead of \t).

Any hints?

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2012-10-01
Gaëtan Delannay (gaetan-delannay) said : #1

Hi,
You could solve this issue by inserting the complete paragraph in a "do xxx from..." clause (in a note):

do text
from xhtml('<text:p>%s</text:p' % record.replace('\t', '<text:tab/>'))

I will try to think about a simpler way to handle this problem...
Cheers,
Gaetan

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