Re: Hyphenated text as String

2002-10-08 Thread Jim Wright

Sigh.

Yeah, I was looking at that class, but hoped there was a more "all in 
one" approach.

Thanks again for the input.

jw


On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 05:28 PM, J.Pietschmann wrote:

> Jim Wright wrote:
>> I did. And it seems like the right class to use, but it looks like it 
>> just hyphenates one word at a time(?).
>> Can you point me toward which class decides which word is last on a 
>> line (measures text length), and hands it off to hyphenator? If I 
>> could just get a point of reference as to how Hyphenator is called by 
>> a specific block, I think I could ferret out the rest pretty quick. I 
>> checked the Javadoc, but couldn't find which class(es) used hyphenator 
>> on the block-level.
>
> Windows explorer can search for files containing certain text,
> on Unixes there is find|grep.
> The code you are asking for is in LineArea.java.
> Be warned: it is very messy, and FOP does *not* hyphenate words, it
> just fakes it very successfully. One of the problems is that text
> making up a single word may be passed in multiple chunks to the
> routine doing the formatting, the other is that it isn't *really*
> clear what's a word if scripts are arbitrarily mixed. FOP is
> not language or script sensitive and just assumes that characters
> below € make up words, and everything else is just punctuation
> but is passed to the hyphenator anyway. In order to have proper word
> detection for hyphenation, a Unicode character property DB and TR29
> (http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr29/) would be needed.
>
> J.Pietschmann
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Re: Hyphenated text as String

2002-10-08 Thread J.Pietschmann

Jim Wright wrote:
> I did. And it seems like the right class to use, but it looks like it 
> just hyphenates one word at a time(?).
> 
> Can you point me toward which class decides which word is last on a line 
> (measures text length), and hands it off to hyphenator? If I could just 
> get a point of reference as to how Hyphenator is called by a specific 
> block, I think I could ferret out the rest pretty quick. I checked the 
> Javadoc, but couldn't find which class(es) used hyphenator on the 
> block-level.

Windows explorer can search for files containing certain text,
on Unixes there is find|grep.
The code you are asking for is in LineArea.java.
Be warned: it is very messy, and FOP does *not* hyphenate words, it
just fakes it very successfully. One of the problems is that text
making up a single word may be passed in multiple chunks to the
routine doing the formatting, the other is that it isn't *really*
clear what's a word if scripts are arbitrarily mixed. FOP is
not language or script sensitive and just assumes that characters
below € make up words, and everything else is just punctuation
but is passed to the hyphenator anyway. In order to have proper word
detection for hyphenation, a Unicode character property DB and TR29
(http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr29/) would be needed.

J.Pietschmann


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Re: Hyphenated text as String

2002-10-08 Thread Jim Wright

I did. And it seems like the right class to use, but it looks like it 
just hyphenates one word at a time(?).

Can you point me toward which class decides which word is last on a line 
(measures text length), and hands it off to hyphenator? If I could just 
get a point of reference as to how Hyphenator is called by a specific 
block, I think I could ferret out the rest pretty quick. I checked the 
Javadoc, but couldn't find which class(es) used hyphenator on the 
block-level.

Thanks for your help!

jw


On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 04:53 PM, J.Pietschmann wrote:

> Jim Wright wrote:
>> Is there some way to get the hyphenated text of a particular block(s) 
>> returned as a string (with hyphens in place)?
>> Since FOP puts hyphens in place at the time of the transform, I'm 
>> hoping to get back the hyphenated strings of specific blocks for a 
>> different portion of my application.
>
> You might want to take a look at the Hyphenator class.
>
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Re: Hyphenated text as String

2002-10-08 Thread J.Pietschmann

Jim Wright wrote:
> Is there some way to get the hyphenated text of a particular block(s) 
> returned as a string (with hyphens in place)?
> 
> Since FOP puts hyphens in place at the time of the transform, I'm hoping 
> to get back the hyphenated strings of specific blocks for a different 
> portion of my application.

You might want to take a look at the Hyphenator class.

J.Pietschmann


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