On Tuesday 16 January 2007 00:02, DA Shetland wrote: > Sorry - I am using 0.93 - will try the trunk and get back. > -d- > SHY support in fop-trunk is a very new addition and any testing and feedback would be much appreciated. It should work as you described, that is SHY being suppressed everywhere and only used to indicate a hyphenated line break possibility. If chosen as a line break a proper hyphen character is put in its place.
Manuel > Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
