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[Alan Elkner <aelkner@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's for the column headings for all the scores and subtotals.  Like
Jeff's case, where he would expect activity headings to run up the
columns of the gradebook pdf, David's report card has headings that
run upwards.

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What do you need this for?
>
> --Tom
>
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Alan Elkner <aelkner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> A couple interesting things I found do point to rotating text, but not
>> within a block table:
>>
>> The first would mean taking the drawing of the form in another
>> direction, using linePlots rather than blockTables (this comes from
>> within z3c.rml source):
>>
>> http://svn.zope.org/*checkout*/z3c.rml/trunk/src/z3c/rml/tests/input/tag-linePlot.rml
>>
>> Another thing I found was someone who had used platypus to subclass
>> Flowable to make their own flowable that draws at a 90% angle, but
>> that would mean changing (through adaptation?) the zope rml code
>> itself:
>>
>> http://two.pairlist.net/pipermail/reportlab-users/2006-October/005381.html
>>
>> I don't know if we want to consider hard-coding the report with
>> platypus, but there is always that possibility
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> You can also ask on the ReportLab mailing list.  Just be aware that
>>> the RML implementation we use isn't ReportLab's.  So basically I'd
>>> just ask if ReportLab can do it.  And if the answer is "no," it
>>> definitely can't be done in RML.  I'm not sure who we ask about the
>>> RML implementation, aside from perhaps Stephan, since he did a lot of
>>> the work on it.
>>>
>>> Also, the POV crew does a lot with ReportLab, so they probably know as
>>> well as anyone.
>>>
>>> --Tom
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Alan Elkner <aelkner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> I've done more than a quick skim, and I haven't found any rotation
>>>> capability for anything related to text.  I was beginning to consider
>>>> making the headings into a graphic in some graphics tool and then
>>>> using the graphics on the page, but that would mean text was
>>>> untranslatable.
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> You can look in the ReportLab documentation to see how it works, if at
>>>>> all in the underlying library (i.e., ReportLab itself).
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.reportlab.com/software/documentation/
>>>>>
>>>>> You can rotate graphics, but I don't see text with a quick skim.
>>>>>
>>>>> --Tom
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Alan Elkner <aelkner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> Guys,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone know how to rotate text in a table cell in an rml
>>>>>> template?  I looked over the various user guides for RML including
>>>>>> z3c.rml itself, and they mention is the self-terminating rotate tag
>>>>>> which appears to apply to a whole page.  I'm looking just to rotate
>>>>>> text in a particular cell.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone know have any experience rotating text in cells, and if
>>>>>> not, is there someone we could ask?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Alan
>>>>>>
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