[reportlab-users] Hyphenation

[Robin Becker]

Hi Lele,

I am allowing changes in the paragraph style setting.  So the rl_settings
value is just the default.

On 22 June 2018 at 18:08, Lele Gaifax <lele at metapensiero.it> wrote:

> Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> writes:
>
> > I have mostly got hyphenation working using Pyphen. Currently about 5
> tests fail because of
> > simple paragraph corner cases involving splits.
> >
> > I will try and finish a working version next week.
>
> Great news, thank you!
>
> > Unfortunately my simple approach is also trying to hyphenate things like
> > URLS which I suppose should be handled separately.
> >
> > Also currently I lack a way to get just the word and not
> non-alpahabetics. I
> > suppose that should be easy if we know what constitutes hyphenatable
> matter.
> > Any ideas welcome.
>
> IMHO I would leave such decision to the final user, as I do not think
> there is
> one single *right* answer... Even for URLs, which I actually happen to
> manage
> in the app where I experimented this matter, I could not reach a consensus
> on
> what should happen, I mean between what currently happens:
>
>   |----------------------------------------------|
>   |This is a long URL: https://hostname/contentna|
>   |me/whatelse
>
> and with pyphen:
>
>   |----------------------------------------------|
>   |This is a long URL: https://hostname/content- |
>   |name/whatelse
>
> it's obviously debatable...
>
> > I am presently running with the idea of using a string setting to
> indicate
> > what language so my settings override has
> >
> > hyphenationLang='en_GB'
> >
> > which corresponds to one of the pyphen dictionaries. This gets into the
> > style and is used only if pyphen can be imported.
>
> Not sure what you mean here, but just to make my use case clear: the app
> I'm
> currently developing is multilingual, and produces several PDFs for a given
> "item", one for each language the customer decided to support. So having a
> "static" setting for the target language would not work very well for me...
> best would be having a way to pass the hyphenator to the Paragraph
> constructor, possibly taking a default from the SimpleDocument...
>
> I will surely try out your solution as soon as it hits the repository and
> will
> report back.
>
> Thanks again,
> ciao, lele.
> --
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