Subject: Hyphenation From: Matthias Clasen <clasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 23:06:46 +0100 |
I try to understand DSSSL's approach to hyphenation, but I did not get very far. I found the following characteristics which are related to hyphenation (are these all?) paragraph flow object: hyphenation-char hyphenation-ladder-count hyphenation-remain-char-count hyphenation-push-char-count hyphenation-keep hyphenation-exceptions character flow object: hyphenate? hyphenation-method break-before-priority break-after-priority drop-after-line-break? drop-unless-before-line-break? While I do understand the purpose of the paragraph characteristics, I cannot make sense of the rest. Why are hyphenate? and hyphenation-method characteristics of single characters and not of words ? How does DSSSL treat a word in which the first character specifies hyphenation method A while the second specifies B ? And what if the third character allows hyphenation, but the fourth doesn't ? Also, I could not find any information in the standard about the input/output of possible hyphenation methods (the same is true for other methods like line-composition-method). My final question on hyphenation: Does DSSSL have a concept of general discretionaries like TeX to allow for eg the German hyphenation ck->k-k ? Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Clasen, Tel. 0761/203-5606 Email: clasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Institut fuer Mathematik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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