Long HTML list entries are not correctly indented about fpdf2 HOT 3 OPEN

@gmischler: this seems related to the text regions / paragraph rendering logic: would you like to have a look at this? 🙂

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@gmischler: this seems related to the text regions / paragraph rendering logic: would you like to have a look at this? 🙂

I think it has always behaved like this. Of course, that's no reason to keep it that way...

There are several possible solutions to this:

• Create a dedicatet ListParagraph() subclass to Paragraph() with a new_item(bullet="\u25cf"). The bullet could be any unicode character, a number, or a string (eg. "22.7(5)"), or the int type for automatic numbering. That last feature would be the advantage of this approach. The disadvantage is the higher complexity of both the implementation and the API. It gets even more hairy if we want automatic hierarchical numbering.

• Add a indent argument to Paragraph(). We probably need that anyway for other purposes. If we combine that with a bullet argument (like above minus the automatic counting), then we already have the building blocks to create all kinds of lists. The disadvantage here is that the client code needs to handle the item numbering of ordered lists. The big advantage is the simplicity and flexibility. It might actually be possible to build an automatic numbering system on top of this later.

I'm currently still busy with other stuff, but I don't think this should be very hard if anyone wants to try.

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There must be a reason, however I am not aware and maybe either of you could enlighten me.

<ol>, <ul> and <blockquote> all create paragraphs and pdf has an l_margin. Why not keep a stack of l_margins and push onto it each time you see one of these tags and call pdf.set_left_margin with pdf.l_margin + (indent * modifier). Each time you see the end tag, pop the l_margin off the stack and again call pdf.set_left_margin with this value,

This solves all of these issues and I have been using this code without encountering any issues* so far, however as I said maybe there is something I am not aware off that makes this a bad idea.

*It does require modification of li elements so that it continues to use the current indent method when not inside a list.

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