Good to see that happen! Here's my take: On 11.01.2007 13:24:16 Manuel Mall wrote: > Hi, > > when I implemented the UAX#14 line breaking I noticed that fop doesn't > currently support the Unicode soft hyphen (SHY). > > I am thinking of adding support for this character to the line breaking > but am unsure of its correct behaviour in an XSL:FO environment. So I > have few questions related to treatment of the SHY: > > 1) If hyphenation is not enabled should a SHY still produce a valid > break opportunity or should it be ignored?
I think it should represent a valid break opportunity. > 2) If hyphenation is enabled shall a word containing a SHY still undergo > hyphenation? Yes, IMO. A SHY may sometimes be used to handle a special case and if that is done in a longer word, I still expect the hyphenation to do its work on the rest of the word, but then taking the shy into account when doing word-splitting. Nothing fancy, though. > 3) Shall a break opportunity created by a SHY be given the same penalty > (in the Knuth sense) as a normal hyphenation break? Yes, IMO. Jeremias Maerki
