On 28.05.2003 20:58:32 Clay Leeds wrote: > On 5/28/2003 12:02 AM, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > A comment concerning the hyphenation patterns: I think what you suggest > > is necessary but there was also the idea of sparing the average FOP user > > the necessity to dig into licensing issues. A really frustrating > > experience. Just for the record. :-) > > > > On 27.05.2003 19:42:19 Clay Leeds wrote: > >>HYPHENATION INFO: > >> 3.9. Hyphenation does not work. > >> > >> Set the language attribute somewhere. Check whether you use a > >> language for which hyphenation is supported. Supported languages > >> can be deduced from the files in the hyph directory of the FOP > >> source distribution. > > While I agree we should "spare" the average user of licensing issues, my > point is that there are places where the average user can legally > download the same hyph patterns Apache cannot incorporate into their > products for licensing reasons. As long as they are links to pages (I > don't recommend links to the files themselves! ;-p), it would seem > helpful to provide such links.
That's what I have done, although there is only one really good link I know of. Most others are mirrors of the first. > The average user may not have to deal > with the licensing issues the Apache Foundation has to deal with (they > may have to "deal" with them, but may be in their rights to use them or > to fulfill the licensing requirements to use them). That's why I've added a clearly visible warning at the bottom that tells people to pay attention to the licences (or the lack of them). > As for the Hyphenation FAQ, it's so brief it begs to have questions > submitted to fop-user by anyone having hyphenation problems. I, for one, > still don't even understand how it works. It would be great to merely > put something like this: Already done something. > Hyphenation > =========== > You can find an example of implementing hyphenation patterns in this > example xsl-fo document: > > examples\fo\basic\hyphen.fo Good idea. This could still be added. > The relevant code for adding hyphenation to an fo:block is: > > language="en" > country="US" > hyphenate="true" > hyphenation-push-character-count="2" > hyphenation-remain-character-count="2" > > [..] > > Of course, I still don't know how to apply a language attribute to my > XML source file. The XML Bible Gold Edition shows this: > > <q xml:lang="fr-FR" > cite="ftp://movie0.archive.org/pub/etext/etext01/swann10h.htm"; > > > Longtemps, je me suis couche' de bonne heure[..] > </q> This is fine. You only need to translate the xml:lang to XSL:FO language and country properties in your stylesheet. I wonder why they specified language/country instead of using xml:lang. > After reading this, I would try adding the following to my document: > > <doc xml:lang="en-US"> > <EOB> > <children-of-EOB>Yeehaw!</children-of-EOB> > <paragraph-pertaining-to-EOB-children>Yata yata yata > </paragraph-pertaining-to-EOB-children> > [..] > </EOB> > </doc> > > (or I could use <doc xml:lang="en-GB"> or merely <doc xml:lang="en"> > because of our current licensing problems)... > > BTW, how does one allow the en-GB hyphenation pattern (which is included > with the FOP distribution) to work for en-US (which I believe isn't > included due to licensing issues)? I remember someone mentioning > somewhere a workaround, but I don't recall what it was. Something like > naming it "en" instead of "en-GB" or something. Just rename en-GB.xml to en.xml and rebuild FOP. Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
