org.apache.fop.hyphenation
Class Hyphen

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.fop.hyphenation.Hyphen

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public class Hyphen

extends java.lang.Object

implements java.io.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

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

java.lang.String	noBreak
java.lang.String	postBreak
java.lang.String	preBreak

Method Summary

java.lang.String

toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

preBreak

public java.lang.String preBreak

noBreak

public java.lang.String noBreak

postBreak

public java.lang.String postBreak

Method Detail

toString

public java.lang.String toString()