Using lists in prawn

Question

Im using prawn to create pdfs that contain much data in table format and some lists. The problem with the lists is that Im just using text as lists because there is no semantic

Answer 1

I just had a similar problem and solved it within Prawn a slightly different way than using a table:

["Item 1","Item 2","Item 3"].each() do |list-item|

  #create a bounding box for the list-item label
  #float it so that the cursor doesn't move down
  float do
    bounding_box [15,cursor], :width => 10 do
      text "•"
    end
  end

  #create a bounding box for the list-item content
  bounding_box [25,cursor], :width => 600 do
    text list-item
  end

  #provide a space between list-items
  move_down(5)

end

This could obviously be extended (for example, you could do numbered lists with an each_with_index() rather than each()). It also allows for arbitrary content in the bounding box (which isn't allowed in tables).