I am trying to write some text to a docx file using python-docx. I want to align the text from right to left and I have added a style for that, which is not working.
Here's the code:
from docx.enum.style import WD_STYLE_TYPE
missingwords= Document()
styles = missingwords.styles
style = missingwords.styles.add_style('rtl', WD_STYLE_TYPE.PARAGRAPH)
style.font.rtl = True
paragraph =missingwords.add_paragraph("Hello world",style='rtl')
I haven't gotten around to playing with docx yet (I've mostly used Excel python modules), but based on the documentation here it's looking like you're modifying the wrong property of style. The Font property, per this definition of the rtl property, would only modify an added run (via myparagraph.add_run("Hello World", style = "rtl")).As far as I can tell, the code you're looking for is:
missingwords = Document()
style = missingwords.styles.add_style('rtl', WD_STYLE_TYPE.PARAGRAPH)
style.paragraph_format.alignment = WD_PARAGRAPH_ALIGNMENT.RIGHT
And then you can go ahead and add the paragraph like you were
paragraph = missingwords.add_paragraph("Hello world",style='rtl')
Again, just going off the documentation, so let me know if that works.