On Thursday 05 April 2007 20:32, Jeff Vannest wrote: Assuming you are using the lastest FOP version instead of actually modifying FOP you could make your stylesheet insert a zero width space after each underscore as that would create a line break opportunity.
Manuel > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
