org.apache.fop.hyphenation

Class Hyphen

Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable

public class Hyphen
extends java.lang.Object
implements Serializable

This class represents a hyphen. A 'full' hyphen is made of 3 parts: the pre-break text, post-break text and no-break. If no line-break is generated at this position, the no-break text is used, otherwise, pre-break and post-break are used. Typically, pre-break is equal to the hyphen character and the others are empty. However, this general scheme allows support for cases in some languages where words change spelling if they're split across lines, like german's 'backen' which hyphenates 'bak-ken'. BTW, this comes from TeX.
Author:
Carlos Villegas

Field Summary

String
noBreak
String
postBreak
String
preBreak

Method Summary

String
toString()

Field Details

noBreak

public String noBreak

postBreak

public String postBreak

preBreak

public String preBreak

Method Details

toString

public String toString()

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