[reportlab-users] ANN: wordaxe-0.2.6 released

[Dirk Holtwick]

Hi,

I didn't have a closer look to the source codes but what I would like 
most (if it makes sense) is to have the possibility to add something 
like HTML "­" or Unicode U+00AD into the text informations:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen#Hyphens_in_computing>

If this could be implemented in the paragraph rendering machine the 
hyphenation could be done outside of Reportlab.

In my concrete case regarding Pisa <http://www.htmltopdf.org> I do not 
use the Paragraph parser. Instead Pisa directly creates the so called 
"Fragments". To these fragments I would like to be able to add something 
like u"beauti\u00adful".

Andy, do you think this would be possible and make sense?

Dirk

Andy Robinson schrieb:

> 2008/9/16 Roberto Alsina <ralsina at netmanagers.com.ar>:

>>>  * This new release now supports pyhyphen, which is based on the C library

>>>    from OpenOffice and works a lot better (at least on my computer) than

>>> pyhnj.

>> Great news! Finally spanish hyphenation!

> 

> If we're going to refactor or replace paragraph code, we need to either

> (a) make it easy to plug in or switch the 'wrapping algorithm', or

> (b) create a Grand Unified Paragraph which does the right things

> for all languages.

> 

> My main worry, not having looked at the code yet, is how easily we can

> create a hybrid para which does all this stuff and also supports Japanese

> word breaking (which ReportLab can do with the cjkwrap options). We're

> rendering lots of Asian pages - go to www.hilton.co.jp and click "e-Pamphlet"

> if you can read katakana ;-)

> 

> In brief, certain ranges of characters can be assumed to be

> Asian languages which don't have spaces between the words.  Instead

> of hyphenating, you have characters which are good and bad to end a

> line on.

> 

> Henning, have you done anything to do with that?  Does the Openoffice

> extension offer any support for Asian languages?

> 

> - Andy

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