Re: [iText-questions] Nested Paragraph Indentation

2009-10-13 Thread mister bean
OK so you have arbitrarily long chunks of text that are preceded by a heading and you need to have the heading and the text kept together on the same page. And where several chunks would fit on a page you'd like them to flow together nicely to give the appearance of a single document. This can be

Re: [iText-questions] Nested Paragraph Indentation

2009-10-13 Thread Mike Wille
Thank's mr. bean. That makes sense. And I went ahead and ordered the book. What was tripping me up on using ColumnText is that I kept wanting to put my normal paragraphs at the top of the page and then use the ColumnText instances for the sections that followed. But it seems you are

Re: [iText-questions] Nested Paragraph Indentation

2009-10-12 Thread mister bean
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

Re: [iText-questions] Nested Paragraph Indentation

2009-10-12 Thread Mike Wille
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