Line breaks¶

When using multi_cell() or write(), each time a line reaches the right extremity of the cell or a carriage return character (\n) is met, a line break is issued and a new line automatically created under the current one.

An automatic break is performed at the location of the nearest space or soft-hyphen (\u00ad) character before the right limit. A soft-hyphen will be replaced by a normal hyphen when triggering a line break, and ignored otherwise.

If the parameter print_sh=False in multi_cell() or write() is set to True, then they will print the soft-hyphen character to the document (as a normal hyphen with most fonts) instead of using it as a line break opportunity.