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<!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Documentation V2.0//EN" "http://forrest.apache.org/dtd/document-v20.dtd">
<document>
<header>
<title>Apache™ FOP: Hyphenation</title>
<version>$Revision$</version>
</header>
<body>
<section id="support">
<title>Hyphenation Support</title>
<section id="intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<p>Apache™ FOP uses Liang's hyphenation algorithm, well known from TeX. It needs
language specific pattern and other data for operation.</p>
<p>Because of <a href="#license-issues">licensing issues</a> (and for
convenience), all hyphenation patterns for FOP are made available through
the <a class="fork" href="http://offo.sourceforge.net/hyphenation/index.html">Objects For
Formatting Objects</a> project.</p>
<note>If you have made improvements to an existing Apache™ FOP hyphenation pattern,
or if you have created one from scratch, please consider contributing these
to OFFO so that they can benefit other FOP users as well.
Please inquire on the <a href="../maillist.html#fop-user">FOP User
mailing list</a>.</note>
</section>
<section id="license-issues">
<title>License Issues</title>
<p>Many of the hyphenation files distributed with TeX and its offspring are
licenced under the <a class="fork" href="http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.html">LaTeX
Project Public License (LPPL)</a>, which prevents them from being
distributed with Apache software. The LPPL puts restrictions on file names
in redistributed derived works which we feel can't guarantee. Some
hyphenation pattern files have other or additional restrictions, for
example against use for commercial purposes.</p>
<p>Although Apache FOP cannot redistribute hyphenation pattern files that do
not conform with its license scheme, that does not necessarily prevent users
from using such hyphenation patterns with FOP. However, it does place on
the user the responsibility for determining whether the user can rightly use
such hyphenation patterns under the hyphenation pattern license.</p>
<warning>The user is responsible to settle license issues for hyphenation
pattern files that are obtained from non-Apache sources.</warning>
</section>
<section id="sources">
<title>Sources of Custom Hyphenation Pattern Files</title>
<p>The most important source of hyphenation pattern files is the
<a class="fork" href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation/">CTAN TeX
Archive</a>.</p>
</section>
<section id="install">
<title>Installing Custom Hyphenation Patterns</title>
<p>To install a custom hyphenation pattern for use with FOP:</p>
<ol>
<li>Convert the TeX hyphenation pattern file to the FOP format. The FOP
format is an xml file conforming to the DTD found at
<code>{fop-dir}/hyph/hyphenation.dtd</code>.</li>
<li>Name this new file following this schema:
<code>languageCode_countryCode.xml</code>. The country code is
optional, and should be used only if needed. For example:
<ul>
<li><code>en_US.xml</code> would be the file name for American
English hyphenation patterns.</li>
<li><code>it.xml</code> would be the file name for Italian
hyphenation patterns.</li>
</ul>
The language and country codes must match the XSL-FO input, which
follows <a href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso639.txt">ISO
639</a> (languages) and <a href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso3166.txt">ISO
3166</a> (countries). NOTE: The ISO 639/ISO 3166 convention is that
language names are written in lower case, while country codes are written
in upper case. FOP does not check whether the language and country specified
in the FO source are actually from the current standard, but it relies
on it being two letter strings in a few places. So you can make up your
own codes for custom hyphenation patterns, but they should be two
letter strings too (patches for proper handling extensions are welcome)</li>
<li>There are basically three ways to make the FOP-compatible hyphenation pattern
file(s) accessible to FOP:
<ul>
<li>Download the precompiled JAR from <a class="fork" href="http://offo.sourceforge.net/hyphenation/index.html">OFFO
</a> and place it either in the <code>{fop-dir}/lib</code> directory, or
in a directory of your choice (and append the full path to the JAR to
the environment variable <code>FOP_HYPHENATION_PATH</code>).</li>
<li>Download the desired FOP-compatible hyphenation pattern file(s) from
<a class="fork" href="http://offo.sourceforge.net/hyphenation/index.html">OFFO</a>,
and/or take your self created hyphenation pattern file(s),
<ul>
<li>place them in the directory <code>{fop-dir}/hyph</code>, </li>
<li>or place them in a directory of your choice and set the Ant variable
<code>user.hyph.dir</code> to point to that directory (in
<code>build-local.properties</code>),</li>
</ul>
and run Ant with build target
<code>jar-hyphenation</code>. This will create a JAR containing the
compiled patterns in <code>{fop-dir}/build</code> that will be added to the
classpath on the next run.
(When FOP is built from scratch, and there are pattern source file(s)
present in the directory pointed to by the
<code>user.hyph.dir</code> variable, this JAR will automatically
be created from the supplied pattern(s)).</li>
<li>Put the pattern source file(s) into a directory of your choice and
configure FOP to look for custom patterns in this directory, by setting the
<a href="configuration.html"><hyphenation-base></a>
configuration option.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<warning>
Either of these three options will ensure hyphenation is working when using
FOP from the command-line. If FOP is being embedded, remember to add the location(s)
of the hyphenation JAR(s) to the CLASSPATH (option 1 and 2) or to set the
<a href="configuration.html#hyphenation-dir"><hyphenation-dir></a>
configuration option programmatically (option 3).
</warning>
</section>
</section>
<section id="patterns">
<title>Hyphenation Patterns</title>
<p>If you would like to build your own hyphenation pattern files, or modify
existing ones, this section will help you understand how to do so. Even
when creating a pattern file from scratch, it may be beneficial to start
with an existing file and modify it. See <a class="fork" href="http://offo.sourceforge.net/hyphenation/index.html">
OFFO's Hyphenation page</a> for examples.
Here is a brief explanation of the contents of FOP's hyphenation patterns:</p>
<warning>The remaining content of this section should be considered "draft"
quality. It was drafted from theoretical literature, and has not been
tested against actual FOP behavior. It may contain errors or omissions.
Do not rely on these instructions without testing everything stated here.
If you use these instructions, please provide feedback on the
<a href="../maillist.html#fop-user">FOP User mailing list</a>, either
confirming their accuracy, or raising specific problems that we can
address.</warning>
<ul>
<li>The root of the pattern file is the <hyphenation-info> element.</li>
<li><hyphen-char>: its attribute "value" contains the character signalling
a hyphen in the <exceptions> section. It has nothing to do with the
hyphenation character used in FOP, use the XSLFO hyphenation-character
property for defining the hyphenation character there. At some points
a dash U+002D is hardwired in the code, so you'd better use this too
(patches to rectify the situation are welcome). There is no default,
if you declare exceptions with hyphenations, you must declare the
hyphen-char too.</li>
<li><hyphen-min> contains two attributes:
<ul>
<li>before: the minimum number of characters in a word allowed to exist
on a line immediately preceding a hyphenated word-break.</li>
<li>after: the minimum number of characters in a word allowed to exist
on a line immediately after a hyphenated word-break.</li>
</ul>
This element is unused and not even read. It should be considered a
documentation for parameters used during pattern generation.
</li>
<li><classes> contains whitespace-separated character sets. The members
of each set should be treated as equivalent for purposes of hyphenation,
usually upper and lower case of the same character. The first character
of the set is the canonical character, the patterns and exceptions
should only contain these canonical representation characters (except
digits for weight, the period (.) as word delimiter in the patterns and
the hyphen char in exceptions, of course).</li>
<li><exceptions> contains whitespace-separated words, each of which
has either explicit hyphen characters to denote acceptable breakage
points, or no hyphen characters, to indicate that this word should
never be hyphenated, or contain explicit <hyp> elements for specifying
changes of spelling due to hyphenation (like backen -> bak-ken or
Stoffarbe -> Stoff-farbe in the old german spelling). Exceptions override
the patterns described below. Explicit <hyp> declarations don't work
yet (patches welcome). Exceptions are generally a bit brittle, test
carefully.</li>
<li><patterns> includes whitespace-separated patterns, which are what
drive most hyphenation decisions. The characters in these patterns are
explained as follows:
<ul>
<li>non-numeric characters represent characters in a sub-word to be
evaluated</li>
<li>the period character (.) represents a word boundary, i.e. either
the beginning or ending of a word</li>
<li>numeric characters represent a scoring system for indicating the
acceptability of a hyphen in this location. Odd numbers represent an
acceptable location for a hyphen, with higher values overriding lower
inhibiting values. Even numbers indicate an unacceptable location, with
higher values overriding lower values indicating an acceptable position.
A value of zero (inhibiting) is implied when there is no number present.
Generally patterns are constructed so that valuse greater than 4 are rare.
Due to a bug currently patterns with values of 8 and greater don't
have an effect, so don't wonder.</li>
</ul>
Here are some examples from the English patterns file:
<ul>
<li>Knuth (<em>The TeXBook</em>, Appendix H) uses the example <strong>hach4</strong>, which indicates that it is extremely undesirable to place a hyphen after the substring "hach", for example in the word "toothach-es".</li>
<li><strong>.leg5e</strong> indicates that "leg-e", when it occurs at the beginning of a word, is a very good place to place a hyphen, if one is needed. Words like "leg-end" and "leg-er-de-main" fit this pattern.</li>
</ul>
Note that the algorithm that uses this data searches for each of the word's substrings in the patterns, and chooses the <em>highest</em> value found for letter combination.
</li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to convert a TeX hyphenation pattern file, you have to undo
the TeX encoding for non-ASCII text. FOP uses Unicode, and the patterns
must be proper Unicode too. You should be aware of the XML encoding issues,
preferably use a good Unicode editor.</p>
<p>Note that FOP does not do Unicode character normalization. If you use
combining chars for accents and other character decorations, you must
declare character classes for them, and use the same sequence of base character
and combining marks in the XSLFO source, otherwise the pattern wouldn't match.
Fortunately, Unicode provides precomposed characters for all important cases
in common languages, until now nobody run seriously into this issue. Some dead
languages and dialects, especially ancient ones, may pose a real problem
though.</p>
<p>If you want to generate your own patterns, an open-source utility called
patgen can be used to assist in creating pattern files from dictionaries.
It is available in many Unix/Linux distributions and every TeX distribution.
Pattern creation for languages like english or german is an art. Read
Frank Liang's original paper <a class="fork" href="http://www.tug.org/docs/liang/">"Word
Hy-phen-a-tion by Com-pu-ter"</a> (yes, with hyphens) for details.
The original patgen.web source, included in the TeX source distributions,
contains valuable comments, unfortunately technical details often obscure the
high level issues. Another important source of information is
<a class="fork" href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/knuth/dist/tex/texbook.tex">The
TeX Book</a>, appendix H (either read the TeX source, or run it through
TeX to typeset it). Secondary articles, for example the works by Petr Sojka,
may also give some much needed insight into problems arising in automated
hyphenation.</p>
</section>
</body>
</document>
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