To fop folks interested in hyphens - or not.
I have been following with interest the development of ideas in fop-dev
for hyphenation implementation, and have started several times to post
this to that list, but my immediate issue is at the user level.
In a data set for which I have recently been working on an XML to PDF
process using XSL-FOP, I just recently was reminded of the SHY character
when I noticed the word "rec-ords" right in the middle of a sentence in
the PDF output. It turns out to be a SHY.
I am not using hyphenation at this time.
From my 20+ years of working with documentation systems, it seems to me
the behavior to be expected here is simple (although I realize the
implementation issues can be very troublesome). The SHY character
should disappear from the containing string - always. In fact SHY is
the character that is not a character - it is a one character size
processing instruction that happens to enjoy a code point in character
tables, but strictly speaking, it doesn't even need a glyph (we have a
code point for the hyphen). In every case, hyphenation available on or
not, turned on or not, the SHY needs to disappear from the string - of
course, if hyphenation is available, the location needs to be remembered
for later use.
So my question is--
Is there some way to explicitly suppress the SHY?
Is there something wrong with my installation?
Thanks for any thoughts.
Dave Shetland
Programmer/Analyst
Legal Information Institute
Cornell Law School
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