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ReportLab - How to add a space between words

I have a text:

elements.append(Paragraph(<font size=10>word1 word2</font>, styleSheet["Normal"]))

I want to add a space between word1 and word2:

word1    word2

How can i do this?

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I know I'm a little late for this, but adding the html for the non-breaking space &nbsp;

worked for me.



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I doubt there is an easy solution for this.

As a workaround, you can try adding a blank (color or background color) 1px x 1px image in your paragraph and rescaling it to the desired width.

<font size=10>word1<img src="../path/to/image" width="10" />word2</font>


Another (tedious) solution would be to host your paragraph yourself with text objects created by canvas.beginText (x, y).

textobject = canvas.beginText(x, y)
textobject.setWordSpace(10)
textobject.textLine("word1 word2")
... (setting other parameters such as font etc.)
canvas.drawText(textobject)

Hope it helps.

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