Hi Victor,
This is one of those times that it might not be as simple as it seems.
According to the WordPerfect 5.1 Developer Toolkit, the codes for the
Hyphen/Hard Hypen & Soft Hyphen are different depending on their context.
If you are working in WorkPerfect 5.1, you can enter three types of
Hyphens... a normal Hyphen Character, Hard Hyphen Home,- and the less
frequently used Soft Hyphen CTRL -
The ambuguity occurs because hyphens are used as word separators and also as
line continuation. If you check the WP5.1 help for Hyphen you will see the
examples,
eg father-in-law with normal hyphens, in the middle of a line is printed as
father-in-law but this hyphen also permits it to be broken at the end of a
line as in
father-in-
law
The hard hyphen Home,Hyphen always displays the hyphen character but permits
the word group from being broken at the end of the line, and will take the
"father-in-law" down to a new line or new page.
The soft hyphen CTRL - doesn't display in the middle of a line, but allows
the word to be broken at the end of a line so if you used it in the above
example you might see this
fatherin-
law
ie no hyphen displayed between the "father" and "in".
WordPerfect has fine control on hyphenation, by allowing you to turn end of
line hyphenation on or off (except Soft-Hyphens which always hyphenate when
at the end of a line), and also allows you to specify the percentage of the
line where automatic line hyphenation takes effect, ie the degree of
hyphenation that will occur in a document.
WordPerfect dynamically changes the single byte code depending on where a
hyphen is, so a Hard-Hyphen-In-a-Line is 0xA9 a
Hard-Hyphen-at-the-end-of-a-line is 0xAA, and at the end of a page 0xAB. A
SoftHyphenInALine is 0xAC, at the end of the line is 0xAD at the end of a
page is 0xAE.
Fortunately WordPerfect is pretty good at finxing those things up, so if you
a Text file containing the 0xA9 character it will work out if it needs to
change it to one of the other codes.
The Hard Space and normal Space are not as complex... the code for the Hard
Space is 0xA0... which is the same byte character as HTML's non-breaking
space The way reveal codes works and similarity of codes such as
Soft-Hyphen ­ 0xAD, Hard Space one might be forgiven for thinking that
Tim Berners-Lee and others had WordPerfect in mind when defining HTML. Or
perhaps he didn;t otherwise with a hyphenated name he would have thought
more about the hard hyphen issue.
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Rude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "DataPerfect Users Discussion Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Dataperf] What character is the "-" in DataPerfect?
Try pressing Home and then - in WP. As you'll see in Reveal Codes, this
produces a '-' character rather than a [Hyphen] code.
Tim Rude
----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "DataPerfect Users Discussion Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 4:33 AM
Subject: [Dataperf] What character is the "-" in DataPerfect?
When I enter data such as "sub-licensee" and then print out a report
which
contains the "-" I cannot relate the "-" to any character in the
WordPerfect character sets. Entering "-" in WordPerfect 5.1 or 6.2
produces a hyphen (looking at reveal codes) (even if entered in as
Alt-45).
Doing a search for a word which contains the "-" which has been entered
in
DataPerfect means that the search will fail (unless I copy the "-"
character in DataPerfect into the search).
But I would like to know what the code number so that I can enter it in
directly in WordPerfect.
I would be grateful for help with this.
Victor Warner
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