Re: Re[2]: [xep-support] Disabling hyphenation?

From: Tim Dean (tim.dean@guidant.com)
Date: Wed Aug 25 2004 - 08:23:14 PDT

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    Thanks, that did the trick...

    - Tim

    On Aug 25, 2004, at 4:54 AM, Alexander Peshkov wrote:

    > Hello Tim,
    >
    > For the current XEP version there are two options if it is necessary
    > to get rid of hyphenation config as a separate file on the disk:
    > 1. In the xep.xml you can specify value of HYPHENLIST option using
    > 'data:' URL, that is actually embed hyphens.xml file into main
    > configuration. 'data:' URI scheme described in RFC 2397
    > (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt)
    > 2. You can place hyphens.xml into XEP (or other) JAR and then address
    > it from xep.xml using 'resource:' URL naming scheme. This 'resource
    > URL' allows you to address any files available in the CLASSPATH
    > including those inside JARs.
    >
    > Note that if you do not need any hyphenation hyphens.xml can contain
    > as little as: <hyphens/>
    > The only requirement of the current XEP version is that this config
    > must be available to formatter in one or other way.
    >
    > Best regards,
    > Alexander Peshkov
    > mailto:peshkov@renderx.com
    > RenderX
    >
    > DTS> Bob,
    >
    > DTS> According to the XSL-FO spec, I believe that "false" is the
    > default value for the hyphenation property.
    >
    > DTS> In any case, my problem is not turning off the hyphenation when
    > rendering. I believe that I actually have hyphenation turned off just
    > fine. The issue is that XEP appears to force me to include
    > DTS> hyphenation config files even if I never intend to use
    > hyphenation. I'm trying to remove extraneous files from my
    > installation, and I can't seem to get rid of the hyphenation config
    > files.
    >
    > DTS> So my question is: How can I configure XEP so as to not require
    > the parsing of hyphenation config files, since I have no intention of
    > using any hyphenation. Is it possible?
    >
    > DTS> Thanks,
    >
    > DTS> - Tim
    >
    > DTS> -----Original Message-----
    > DTS> From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sagehill.net]
    > DTS> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 8:55 PM
    > DTS> To: xep-support@renderx.com
    > DTS> Subject: Re: [xep-support] Disabling hyphenation?
    >
    >
    > DTS> Have you tried putting a hyphenate="false" property on the
    > fo:root element
    > DTS> of XSL-FO documents? That's how most people turn off hyphenation.
    >
    > DTS> Bob Stayton
    > DTS> Sagehill Enterprises
    > DTS> DocBook Consulting
    > DTS> bobs@sagehill.net
    >
    >
    > DTS> ----- Original Message -----
    > DTS> From: "Dean, Tim (STP)" <Tim.Dean@guidant.com>
    > DTS> To: <xep-support@renderx.com>
    > DTS> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 2:25 PM
    > DTS> Subject: RE: [xep-support] Disabling hyphenation?
    >
    >
    >>> I have experimented with a variety of changes in this file. What I
    >>> can't
    > DTS> figure out is how to say "I don't want to hyphenate, so please
    > don't report
    > DTS> errors when you can't find the hyphenation files". None of my
    > experiments
    > DTS> have been able to do this, and the XEP documentation provides no
    > information
    > DTS> that I can find.
    >>>
    >>> - Tim
    >>>
    >>> -----Original Message-----
    >>> From: Werner Donné [mailto:werner.donne@re.be]
    >>> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 2:34 AM
    >>> To: xep-support@renderx.com
    >>> Subject: Re: [xep-support] Disabling hyphenation?
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> Tim,
    >>>
    >>> Have you changed the XEP/etc/hypens.xml configuration file?
    >>>
    >>> Werner.
    >>>
    >>> Dean, Tim (STP) wrote:
    >>>> I wish to render PDF documents without allowing any text to be
    > DTS> hyphenated. If I am reading the XSL-FO spec, this is the default
    > behavior
    > DTS> for the hyphenation property. Is my understanding correct?
    >>>>
    >>>> Now, in XEP I find that there are several hyphenation-related config
    > DTS> files included. For a variety of reasons, I would like to remove
    > all files
    > DTS> that are not necessary from my runtime environment. However, if I
    > remove
    > DTS> these files I find that XEP spits out error messages as it tries
    > to find
    > DTS> these files.
    >>>>
    >>>> Is there any way to tell XEP not to look for these files, which
    > DTS> shouldn't be necessary because I'm not hyphenating anything?
    >>>>
    >>>> Thanks,
    >>>>
    >>>> Tim Dean
    >>>> Principal Software Engineer
    >>>> Telephone: (651) 582-4791
    >>>>
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