In fact it looks like whether the soft hyphen shows up in mid line depends on the following character.
<itemizedlist> > <listitem><para><literal>..</literal></para></listitem> > <listitem><para><literal>. .</literal></para></listitem> > <listitem><para><literal>.</literal></para></listitem> > <listitem><para><literal>.]</literal></para></listitem> > <listitem><para><literal>.\</literal></para></listitem> > <listitem><para><literal>."</literal></para></listitem> > <listitem><para><literal>.a</literal></para></listitem> > <listitem><para><literal>.Z</literal></para></listitem> > </itemizedlist> produces the following in the PDF: • .-. > • . . > • . > • .-] > • .\ > • .-" > • .a > • .Z Mark On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Mark Craig <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Apologies if this is really a FOP question. I'm a bit out of my depth. > > I've added some FO customization based on Bob Stayton's helpful suggestion > on putting hyphenation within table > cells<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05030.html>, > adding soft hyphens after . in <literal>. > > For most of the text the customization works exactly as desired in PDF. > For example, inside of a <para>, > <literal>com.iplanet.am.sdk.caching.enabled</literal> shows up split where > necessary. > > You must explicitly set this property to true, because setting com.- >> iplanet.am.sdk.caching.enabled to false in the previous step disables >> both user and configuration data caching. > > > I have many examples of this working throughout the documentation I'm > working on, and it is particularly helpful in table cells. > > Unfortunately, in some cases, such as <term><literal>userattr = > "[parent[child-level].]attr#GROUPDN|USERDN"</literal></term>, the soft > hyphen shows up after the . even though the line does not break. (I've > replaced the soft hyphen in the following with a hyphen so you can see what > I mean.) > > userattr = "[parent[child-level].-]attr#GROUPDN|USERDN" > > > What should I do to avoid the soft hyphen appearing in the PDF in such > cases? > > Thanks for your time and your help, > Mark >
