That is a relief! I could not find what I was looking for and now I do not
have to pull out any more of my hair in frustration; far too little left for
that in any case.

Yours

Mark B


JohnRodey wrote:
> 
> No worries, mine just needs to be in a readable format.  So even something
> as simple as an eol at the next space character after the 80th character
> is good enough for me.  I could also create word wrapping on the display
> side.  Thanks for your help
> 
> 
> MSB wrote:
>> 
>> It's so long since I had to write any print routines using core Java code
>> that I cannot really remember the deatils but I do know that there is
>> support in the language for working out the space a line of text rendered
>> in a specific font will occupy. If I have the time today, I will look out
>> the code I put together way back when because I think it does something
>> very much like this; takes a line of text and inserts hard line breaks so
>> that it can be either printed out onto a page or rendered in some other
>> way. Sorry to say that I forgot about this completely last night.
>> 
>> Yours
>> 
>> Mark B
>> 
>> 
>> JohnRodey wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thanks Mark.  That's kinda what I figured I would need to do.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> MSB wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Not at all too sure that I understand your question as I am not
>>>> familiar with natch/hadoop. So, I am going to guess that you want to
>>>> use POI to extract the text of a paragraph or paragraphs from a Word
>>>> document or documents and then repsent that text using another
>>>> application but still formatted - from the perspective of a paragraphs
>>>> layout - to the user. If this is correct then I think you will have to
>>>> determine where Word would wrap the text and insert the hard line
>>>> breaks yourself.
>>>> 
>>>> The problem you are facing is that Word does not add end of line
>>>> characters to the text of a paragraph to wrap lines. Instead, the
>>>> application will determine where the line should be broken based upon
>>>> the width of the page amongst other factors. Therefore, you will need
>>>> to decide where the line should be broken and insert your own line
>>>> breaks if you want to emulate the look and feel of MS Word.
>>>> 
>>>> Yours
>>>> 
>>>> Mark B
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> JohnRodey wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Using POI for word documents with nutch/hadoop is there a way to force
>>>>> the plugin to add an eol character where word would typically do
>>>>> wrapping?  Or would I have to rewrite the plugin and add custom logic
>>>>> to add the eol character?  Currently the plugin will print a paragraph
>>>>> on one really long line.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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