Paragraph indents

[mburton603]

Indents don't appear to work. I have (for example) the following php statements:
$tabStop = (int)round(PhpOffice\PhpWord\Shared\Font::inchSizeToTwips(0.5));
$tabs = array($tabStop);
$docObj->addParagraphStyle('lhba', array('align'=>'left', 'spaceBefore'=>0, 'spaceAfter'=>0, 'spacing'=>0, 'hanging'=>$tabStop, 'indent'=>$tabStop, 'lineHeight'=>1, 'tabs'=>$tabs));
$docPara = $docSect->addTextRun('lhba');
$docPara->addText("(a)\tThis is a test", 'm11');
The text "This is a test" that appears in the resulting Word document has Indentation->Left set to 0.0, rather than 0.5.

[ctrlaltca]

"indent" takes a single numeric value, not an array of tab stops. I suppose what you are trying to achieve is "hanging", anyway.

[mburton603]

In my error report, the code sets the indent value to $tabStop, not $tabs. $tabStop is a single value. From: ctrlaltca [mailto:notifications@github.com] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 9:30 To: PHPOffice/PHPWord <PHPWord@noreply.github.com> Cc: mburton603 <burtonmc@comcast.net>; Author <author@noreply.github.com> Subject: Re: [PHPOffice/PHPWord] Paragraph indents (#913) "indent" takes a single numeric value, not an array of tab stops. I suppose what you are trying to achieve is "hanging", anyway. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#913 (comment)> , or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AIIejyeV4ViLg6ir-5qEWUVSn0PfhnSSks5sH7JYgaJpZM4KZNMV> . <https://github.com/notifications/beacon/AIIej2-oD3wtBwaD1r9sWIKi1LAnd98Qks5sH7JYgaJpZM4KZNMV.gif>

[ctrlaltca]

Still, the value you are passing is not correct.
The array should look something like:

array(
	'align' => 'left',
	'indentation' => array('left' => 60, 'right' => 60, 'hanging' => 360),
);

[mburton603]

This does not work. I now have the following extracted code: $docObj->addParagraphStyle('lhba', array('align'=>'left', 'spaceBefore'=>$space6, 'spaceAfter'=>$space6, 'spacing'=>0, 'indent'=>array('left'=>$tabStop, 'hanging'=>$tabStop), 'lineHeight'=>1, 'tabs'=>$tabs)); $docPara->addText("(a)\tThe Materials are being provided to " . $agmtData['xferOrgAbbr'] . " by " . $agmtData['contactName'] . " (" . $agmtData['orgName'] . ") for purposes of ", 'm11'); which produces the attached result. From: ctrlaltca [mailto:notifications@github.com] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 14:13 To: PHPOffice/PHPWord <PHPWord@noreply.github.com> Cc: mburton603 <burtonmc@comcast.net>; Author <author@noreply.github.com> Subject: Re: [PHPOffice/PHPWord] Paragraph indents (#913) Still, the value you are passing is broken. The array should look something like: array( 'align' => 'left', 'indentation' => array('left' => 60, 'right' => 60, 'hanging' => 360), ); — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#913 (comment)> , or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AIIej4m72R1zv4O8snoTOUYnEt50TEUVks5sH_S2gaJpZM4KZNMV> . <https://github.com/notifications/beacon/AIIejyt4PNwOfvaQQ-fvo6fxKLWEY9Uvks5sH_S2gaJpZM4KZNMV.gif>

[ctrlaltca]

I now have the following extracted code:

$docObj->addParagraphStyle('lhba', array('align'=>'left', 'spaceBefore'=>$space6, 'spaceAfter'=>$space6, 'spacing'=>0, 'indent'=>array('left'=>$tabStop, 'hanging'=>$tabStop), 'lineHeight'=>1, 'tabs'=>$tabs));

in my example i used "indentation", not "indent"

which produces the attached result.

I assume you replied to a notification email and attached something, but email attachments doesn't end up on github.

[mburton603]

I saw that you used 'indentation', but there's no reference to that in my copy of the manual, which is why I used 'indent'. I've switched to 'indentation', and there's an improvement, but it still doesn't work.
Test.txt

Test_11988.docx

The file Test.txt is the .php code which produced the second file Test_11988.docx. Note that the first line of the last paragraph is not indented.

[mburton603]

I changed to ‘indentation’, but no luck. I uploaded some files directly to GitHub. From: ctrlaltca [mailto:notifications@github.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 13:11 To: PHPOffice/PHPWord <PHPWord@noreply.github.com> Cc: mburton603 <burtonmc@comcast.net>; Author <author@noreply.github.com> Subject: Re: [PHPOffice/PHPWord] Paragraph indents (#913) I now have the following extracted code: $docObj->addParagraphStyle('lhba', array('align'=>'left', 'spaceBefore'=>$space6, 'spaceAfter'=>$space6, 'spacing'=>0, 'indent'=>array('left'=>$tabStop, 'hanging'=>$tabStop), 'lineHeight'=>1, 'tabs'=>$tabs)); in my example i used "indentation", not "indent" which produces the attached result. I assume you replied to a notification email and attached something, but email attachments doesn't end up on github. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#913 (comment)> , or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AIIej4wbKZiUfitYAvH2WGFDSvnVtSrKks5sITehgaJpZM4KZNMV> . <https://github.com/notifications/beacon/AIIej-jnE8crlH2ZlqQgm1mPtjTWZaL-ks5sITehgaJpZM4KZNMV.gif>

[ctrlaltca]

but there's no reference to that in my copy of the manual,

Well, i have to agree with you that documentation sucks. I usually make my way between samples and directly reading through the code.

Note that the first line of the last paragraph is not indented.

In this case, you may want to have a look at the sample #8, that shows a bit how to paginate paragraphs. Here's the relevant output of the sample:

[mburton603]

Thanks very much - your suggestion helped, and I've been able to achieve what I wanted. I'll admit that I don't normally look that closely at samples (particularly when there's documentation), because most of the time they don't cover what I'm looking for.