On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 14:49 -0700, John Machin wrote: > I see that you haven't had the evil spirits exorcised from your mail/ > news client ... it's hijacked a thread again :-( > don't worry, won't happen this time.
It seams I did some thing wrong with the settings and it drops out mails. Now the problem is sorted out. > > > > The cell merging is happening but no text centering in those merged > > cells. > > > > If any one is interested I can send my part of code snippid. > > to just tell in short, it just has the sudo code as > > create document > > > > create a style to set centered text > > > > create table and add rows to which cells are added. > > the cell has a p (paragraph ) element with the style of centered text > > applied. > > > > cells are merged > > > > but no centering happens. > > > > Please let me know if any one wanted me to send the code off the list. > > > > Even better, if some one has a code snippid which can just do that. > > You might like to try: > (a) checking that you can get text centred in an UNmerged cell Tryed, it works perfectly. The text gets centered in an unmerged cell. > (b) using Calc, creating a small ods file with your desired > formatting, then comparing the XML in that ods file with the one your > script has created This is the first thing I tryed and even got some insight into the xml. However when I apply the same elements and attributes to the one I am creating with odfpy, I get "attribute not allowed " errors. If some one is interested to look at the code, please let me know, I can send an attachment off the list so that others are not forced to download some thing they are not concerned about. > (c) contacting the author/maintainer of the odfpy package Done and awaiting the reply for last 4 days. It was then that I came to this thread. happy hacking. Krishnakant. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list