On 27/10/2010 8:26, riffla wrote: > > OK. > This is a short example > . > > And this is another > example. > > Looking at the two sentences above, the first one is the situation I want to > avoid. Looking at the position of the the period, this character alone has > been pushed to a new line, in contrast to the second one where the word > 'example' joined the period on the new line. > > No line/row should start with a period - guess that summarizes it well. > > Hope this makes things more understandable
Yes, if I understand correctly, you don't want the line to split on a space character. To avoid this, you should use the non-breaking space character instead of the normal space character. You want the line to split only when there is a period. To achieve this you need to define '.' as a SplitCharacter. All of this is done in section 2.2.4 of the second edition of "iText in Action" (but instead of '.', the split character is '|'). You can download chapter 2 for free from http://affiliate.manning.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=223_212 An unwanted side-effect of this approach that lines that don't fit on the line will be split at an arbitrary place. See figure 2.6 where the word "Stop" is split into "Sto" and "p". That's not an iText problem; that's a problem caused by the requirements. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
