You should start by saying which FOP version you are using. For the recent SHY stuff to work you need the latest code from the Subversion repository (FOP Trunk). It is not available in 0.93.
On 15.01.2007 15:47:53 DA Shetland wrote: > To fop folks interested in hyphens - or not. > > I have been following with interest the development of ideas in fop-dev > for hyphenation implementation, and have started several times to post > this to that list, but my immediate issue is at the user level. > > In a data set for which I have recently been working on an XML to PDF > process using XSL-FOP, I just recently was reminded of the SHY character > when I noticed the word "rec-ords" right in the middle of a sentence in > the PDF output. It turns out to be a SHY. > > I am not using hyphenation at this time. > > From my 20+ years of working with documentation systems, it seems to me > the behavior to be expected here is simple (although I realize the > implementation issues can be very troublesome). The SHY character > should disappear from the containing string - always. In fact SHY is > the character that is not a character - it is a one character size > processing instruction that happens to enjoy a code point in character > tables, but strictly speaking, it doesn't even need a glyph (we have a > code point for the hyphen). In every case, hyphenation available on or > not, turned on or not, the SHY needs to disappear from the string - of > course, if hyphenation is available, the location needs to be remembered > for later use. > > So my question is-- > Is there some way to explicitly suppress the SHY? > Is there something wrong with my installation? > > Thanks for any thoughts. > > Dave Shetland > Programmer/Analyst > Legal Information Institute > Cornell Law School Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
