Please note that a document may contain fragments of text written in many different languages simultaneously. My documents, for example, are mostly "pt-BR", but ocasionaly I have "en-GB" words interweaved, such as "software" or "framework", "fr" for "façade", "de" for "Kindergarten", usw. The best practice is to always specify the language code in the document, never outside it, since it is very useful metadata. It may be used not only for hyphenation, but also for ortography check, to select localized formats, etc. It may also be used to keep multilingual documents -- you may select the adequate idiom in the view generation layer. To specify a sole language for the whole document, just use the xml:lang attribute at the top-level element: this attribute is inherited by the whole tree. The FOP parameter Mr. Day cited only works when the document does not specify any language at all -- FOP then provides a convenient way to specify a fallback language. If you specify the language in the document, as usual, you should never need it.
Cheers. ============================================= Marcelo Jaccoud Amaral Petrobrás (http://www.petrobras.com.br) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +55 21 2534-3485 fax: +55 21 2534-1809 ============================================= <footnote> <citation xml:lang="pt">Nunca discutas com um idiota. Ele arrasta-te até ao nível dele, e depois ganha-te em experiência.</citation> <citation xml:lang="en">Never argue with an idiot. He drags you to his level, and then beats you in experience.</citation> </footnote> "Robert P. J. Day" Para: FOP users list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: g.com> Assunto: Re: docbook, xmlto, FOP and hyuphenation 14/04/2003 07:36 Favor responder a fop-user On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Togan Muftuoglu wrote: > * Robert P. J. Day; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 13 Apr, 2003 wrote: > >with a single stylesheet fragment. but there's no parameter > >which specifies hyphenation *country* as far as i can see. > >so, at the moment, i don't see how to use this technique > >to specify that i want my hyphenation country to be "en_GB" > >using this technique. > use of the following parameter in your customization > > <xsl:param name="l10n.gentext.default.language" select="'en_GB'"/> > > will do the trick ironic that i finally took the time to scan the entire list of FO parms, and that language stuff was *right* down at the bottom, while i was looking around where the "hyphenate" parm was. that will teach me to keep reading. thanks, i'll test that shortly. rday --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
