[xep-support] Re: Hyphenation.

Bob Stayton bobs at sagehill.net
Mon Jul 25 08:28:06 PDT 2011


Yes, the DocBook XSL stylesheets can do that, controlled by a couple of params, as 
described here:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Ulinks.html#BreakLongUrls

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs at sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman at CraneSoftwrights.com>
To: "RenderX Community Support List" <xep-support at renderx.com>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 7:56 AM
Subject: [xep-support] Re: Hyphenation.


> At 2011-07-25 15:47 +0100, Dave Pawson wrote:
>>When using justification, a long url really spoils the look of a page.
>>Is it possible to add the / character as a candidate hyphenation point please?
>>If so, how?
>>
>>for very long url's, it looks squashed even when left justified?
>
> The typical approach described on this list in the past is to inject zero-width 
> spaces where you want line breaks:
>
>   http://lists.renderx.com/pipermail/xep-support/2005-January/003435.html
>   http://services.renderx.com/lists/xep-support/1079.html
>   http://lists.renderx.com/pipermail/xep-support/2011-May/007087.html
>
> I hope this helps.  I think it would be more appropriate to do something custom for 
> your own transformation, and localized only where you want it, than to modify 
> hyphenation tables which would have such a wide impact.
>
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