Configuration

- Configuring FOP -

-In the directory xml-fop/conf you will find an example -configuration file. It contains the default values of various -configurable options available in FOP. -

The file fop.xconf is not read automatically, the user - must specify it on the command line or if embedding then - configure the appropriate classes. -

- Setting up Hyphenation -

FOP comes already with some hyphenation patterns. If you - need a hyphenation pattern which isn't included in the - distribution, do the following: -

1. get the TeX hyphenation pattern file and turn it into an xml file which conforms - to the hyphenation.dtd in the sub directory /hyph -

2. name this new file following this schema: languageCode_countryCode.xml. If you don't need - a country code, leave it out, e.g the file name for an American english hyphenation pattern - would look like this: en_US.xml. For an Italian file: it.xml. Language and country codes must be - the same as in xsl:fo, that is follow - ISO 639 - and ISO 3166 - respectively. NOTE: The ISO 639/ISO 3166 convention is that language names are - written in lower case, while country codes are written in upper case. -

3. If you have build your new hyphenation pattern file - successfully you put the file into the /hyph directoy - and rebuild FOP. The file will be picked up and added - to the fop.jar. -