leader property

TabStop.leader property

Gets or sets the type of the leader line displayed under the tab character.

@property
def leader(self) -> aspose.words.TabLeader:
    ...

@leader.setter
def leader(self, value: aspose.words.TabLeader):
    ...

Examples

Shows how to modify the position of the right tab stop in TOC related paragraphs.

doc = aw.Document(file_name=MY_DIR + 'Table of contents.docx')
# Iterate through all paragraphs with TOC result-based styles; this is any style between TOC and TOC9.
for para in doc.get_child_nodes(aw.NodeType.PARAGRAPH, True):
    para = para.as_paragraph()
    if para.paragraph_format.style.style_identifier >= aw.StyleIdentifier.TOC1 and para.paragraph_format.style.style_identifier <= aw.StyleIdentifier.TOC9:
        # Get the first tab used in this paragraph, this should be the tab used to align the page numbers.
        tab = para.paragraph_format.tab_stops[0]
        # Replace the first default tab, stop with a custom tab stop.
        para.paragraph_format.tab_stops.remove_by_position(tab.position)
        para.paragraph_format.tab_stops.add(position=tab.position - 50, alignment=tab.alignment, leader=tab.leader)
doc.save(file_name=ARTIFACTS_DIR + 'Styles.ChangeTocsTabStops.docx')

leader property

TabStop.leader property

Examples

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