Thanks for the tip. I submitted a ticket there. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1023
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello Andrew, > > we use jira for tracking new ideas / feature requests [1]. Chances that > this will be implemented are even higher if you provide a patch with > acompanying unit tests ;-) > > Currently I'm not sure whether this really belongs to lang. WordUtils is > supposed as a utility for simple use cases. We should make sure that it > doesn't become a full blown text parsing engine, since would be out of > scope for [LANG] imho. > > br, > Benedikt > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG > > > 2014-07-08 20:45 GMT+02:00 Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.penneba...@gmail.com > >: > > > The current implementation of WordUtils.wrap behaves well for a lot of > > basic English language text, but I'd really like to word-wrap more > > complicated text, that contains hyphens and other punctuation. I want to > be > > able to supply a dash, slash separator ("-/") to wrap so that > > "tomato-potato" wraps like: > > > > tomato- > > potato > > > > and "flammable/inflammable" wraps like: > > > > flammable/ > > inflammable > > > > Currently, WordUtils.wrap does not appear to have an option for > customizing > > word boundary separators, so these examples end up getting wrapped like: > > > > tomato-potato (with wrapLongWords false) > > > > flammable/inflammable > > > > When wrapLongWords is set to true, the current space-based wrapping is > > almost unreadable: > > > > tomato-po > > tato > > > > flamm > > able/inf > > lamma > > ble > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > > > Andrew Pennebaker > > www.yellosoft.us > > > > > > -- > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > http://github.com/britter > -- Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us
