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Is there a way to format paragraph spacing in Report Text tool?

slobo
8 - Asteroid

It always renders space between sentences like A, but I want to look like B.  

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danilang
19 - Altair
19 - Altair

Hi @slobo 

 

Can you provide a sample workflow with some text to show the behaviour?

 

Thanks

 

Dan

slobo
8 - Asteroid

Hi @danilang

 

Thanks for the fast response! I have attached workflow in main post.

 

Thanks.

CharlieS
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

What format are you rendering to? I'll leave this here if we have to edit pcxml: http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm#Heading46

danilang
19 - Altair
19 - Altair

Hi @slobo 

 

Are you still seeing the issue?  Your sample workflow seems to work properly.

 

@CharlieS. Thanks for another clue in the pcxml puzzle. 

 

Dan  

slobo
8 - Asteroid

charlieS, I am rendering to email.

 

danilang, basically there is no problem at all because I do get rendered text. The challenge is with the formatting text in Report Text. It looks like this tool has fixed setting regarding paragraph spacing. 

danilang
19 - Altair
19 - Altair

Hi @slobo 

 

The report text prints out what you feed it, wrapped to fit the cell of course.  

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In the pdf sample above I have no spaces between the first tow paragraphs and 1 line between the second and third, which is exactly what is in the report text.

 

Are you getting different behaviour?

 

Dan 

 

slobo
8 - Asteroid

Hi, danilang. I'm getting the same output as you. 

But the thing I want to change is spacing between sentences (to decrease it). 

 

slobodanium_0-1626433824602.png

 

atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Hi @slobo 

 

If this line breaks are in the table cell of a table tool it will loose formatting. You need to use something like this https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/Concatenating-Fields-in-Email-Tool/td-...

slobo
8 - Asteroid

Hi atcodedog05. These spaces between sentences are not in the table tool. 

 

I just think there are no options for additional formatting of basic text except maybe using pcxml via Rendering tool, and then somehow getting it to Email tool.

 

 

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