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Hello, After studing hyphenation in XSL, I have the following comments and questions: Like in DSSSL, there are three properties for defining a localization for the hyphenation (because each language has its own rules for this). The intention is (please correct) that implementors has to learn and make hyphenation rules for different countries, languages and scripts. First of all, it must be quite a large job only to implement half a dozen of the most common cases within ISO 8859-1. Secondly, there are common exceptions to hyphenation rules, making it necessary to treat each case individually. So I don't believe in this approach. The only way to get things right is a hyphenation dictionary, like in DSSSL, FOSI or TeX. This is what I'm thinking about: <fo:block hyphenation-exception="uri(list.txt)"> The URI refers to a file containing a list of words with hypens in appropriate places. When a word needs hyphenation the formatter check this file to see in which places the word may be hyphenated. Words not in the list are never hyphenated. If this feature is not added, I'm afraid we'll have to wade through a lot of FO code to correct bad hyphenation before processing the final output. For URIs, a special problem arise. A URI is often resulting in large spaces on the following line. The best way I've seen to avoid that is to break the URI after a "/", but without hyphen. Any ideas for how this exception could be solved? Ideally, there would be no need for hyphenation at all. The most convenient way to avoid it is to work with the space between words. Most layout programs today do this one row at a time, instead of working with the whole paragraph, and this seem to be the intent in XSL aswell. Why not a hyphenation that check and adjust the whole paragraph? The spec doesn't mention anything about soft hyphens (#173). It's important that soft hyphens are treated as such. That is, if your XML file is scattered with soft hyphens for every single place a hyphen may occur, the finished output should be exactly as you want it. This could be a cheap solution for those whose native hyphenation rules (and exceptions!) are not implemented, and it would be valuable for those who need to make final corrections in the FO. Finally, I think there should be a property for setting the minimum number of characters for hyphenated words. Thanks for your time, Gustaf Liljegren XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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