Does FOP only wrap text on spaces? What I'm seeing is that text placed in a cell will overrun the cell boundaries if the text does not contain a space.
I've attached a PNG showing the symptom. The example contains four cells (with four column headings) each containing boundary text as follows: Method: COA BOUNDARY_METHOD 01MAR_ABCDEFGHIJ_END Operation: COA BOUNDARY_OP 01MAR_ABCDEFGHIJKLMN_END Procedure: N/A Component: COA BOUNDARY_COMP 01MAR_ABCDEFGHIJKL_END Because certain sections of text are very long without spaces, and because no hyphenation support is configured, the text starts to overrun cell boundaries. Analysis of Example ==================== The Method cell correctly wraps after "COA ". However, I'm guessing that "BOUNDARY_METHOD" is too wide for the cell, so wrapping stops, and instead "BOUNDARY_METHOD 01MAR_ABCDEFGHIJ_END" is simply printed non-stop across the first 3 columns. The Operation cell has a problem. I assume that this cell knows that it cannot wrap because the Method cell already consumes this space, so it simply writes all text across columns 2-4. The Procedure cell prints "N/A" as it should, but it is already obscured by the Operation overflow text. The Component cell prints and wraps correctly, but is partially obscured by the Operation overflow text. Hyphenation =========== Why not enable hyphenation support? Good question, with hopefully, a good answer: Our implementation will be writing chemical and scientific data, and I assume that they hyphenation patterns will not 1) support scientific names without ongoing tweaking for every new chemical name added, and 2) be preferred by our readers, who are very particular that data appear unaltered. In our previous solution using Oracle Reports, long words were simply broken across lines. For example, if the text "COA BOUNDARY_METHOD" did not fit into a single cell, it might hard-break the text as COA BOUNDARY_ME THOD This is suitable to our readers, since it represents no artificial modification of the name (no hyphenation), and it does not obscure data in cells to the right. Questions ========= Sooooooooooo............. 1) Can FOP be configured to wrap on characters other than space? Like underscore, for example? This would decrease the occurrence of the problem. 2) If I were to modify the FOP code to hard-break words when no space is found, where would that modification occur? (I assume this support would be "turned on" in the configuration file or whatever.) Thanks for your thoughts in advance, and for all the hard work you do on FOP! Jeff
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