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append

Class: mlreportgen.dom.LinkTarget
Namespace: mlreportgen.dom

Append content to link target

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Syntax

textObj = append(targetObj,text)
textObj = append(targetObj,text,styleName)
textObj = append(targetObj,textObj)
autoNumberObj = append(targetObj,autoNumberObj)

Description

textObj = append(targetObj,text) converts text to an mlreportgen.dom.Text object, appends the text to the link target, and returns the text object.

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textObj = append(targetObj,text,styleName) converts text to an mlreportgen.dom.Text object, appends the text to the link target, and returns the text object.

textObj = append(targetObj,textObj) appends the content of an mlreportgen.dom.Text object.

autoNumberObj = append(targetObj,autoNumberObj) appends an automatically generated number to the link target.

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Examples

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This example creates a two-page document with a link to a target at the top of the document.

Create a link target 'home' and append text to it. After a page break, create a link to the target, using InternalLink. The text for the link is Go to top.

import mlreportgen.dom.*
d = Document('mydoc','pdf');

target = LinkTarget('home');
append(target,' - top of page');
append(d,target);

p = Paragraph('This is another paragraph');
p.Style = {PageBreakBefore(true)};
append(d,p);

append(d,InternalLink('home','Go to top'));

close(d);
rptview(d.OutputPath);

This example creates a two-page document with an autonumber appended to the link target.

Create a paragraph and define an autonumber. Append the autonumber to the target and append the target to the paragraph. After the page break, create a link to the target. 

import mlreportgen.dom.*
d = Document('mydoc','docx');

p = Paragraph('Chapter ');
p.Style = {CounterInc('chapter'),WhiteSpace('preserve')};
number = AutoNumber('chapter');
target = LinkTarget('chapno');
append(target,number);
append(p,target);
append(d,p);

p = Paragraph('Paragraph on another page');
p.Style = {PageBreakBefore(true)};
append(d,p);

append(d,InternalLink('target','Chapter reference'));

close(d);
rptview(d.OutputPath);

Input Arguments

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Link target to append content to, specified as an mlreportgen.dom.LinkTarget object.

Text to append, specified as a character vector or string scalar.

Name of style, specified as a character vector or string scalar.

Text object containing the text to append, specified as an mlreportgen.dom.Text object.

Automatically generated number, specified as an mlreportgen.dom.AutoNumber object.

Output Arguments

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Text object, represented by an mlreportgen.dom.Text object.

Automatically generated number for link target, returned as an mlreportgen.dom.AutoNumber object.

Version History

Introduced in R2014b

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