Jessica Perry Hekman wrote: > Is there any way to ask FOP to allow line breaks before and after > particular characters -- in my case, mdashes? Apologies if this should > actually be specified in the FO; I've been trying to find a place in the > FO spec which says how to specify legal breaking characters, and I've > failed so far. That's not surprising, the XSLFO rec doesn't say much about processing individual characters (except LF and XML whitespace). It is generally understood that XSLFO processors have to comply to the Unicode standards bundles, and for line breaks TR14 is relevant, search http://www.unicode.org -> technical reports.
Unfortunately, FOP does not implement TR14, it treats nearly all characters except Unicode spaces as not allowing a break. You can insert a zero width space before and after the mdash in order to get the desired behaviour (as also defined by TR14). Another caveat: FOP 0.20.4 has a bug in the white space width calculation, you'll have to get the 0.20.5cvs code from the repository directly or fall back to 0.20.3. J.Pietschmann --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
