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<document>
<header>
<title>FOP: Hyphenation</title>
<version>$Revision$</version>
</header>
<body>
<section id="std">
<title>Standard Hyphenation Support</title>
<p>The following table summarizes FOP's standard hyphenation support.
Please note that the "view" links reflect current CVS, and may be different than the contents of released code. See <link href="#patterns">Hyphenation Patterns</link> for a brief explanation of the contents of these files.</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>language_COUNTRY code</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>View Patterns (maintenance branch CVS)</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>en</td>
<td>English</td>
<td><jump href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/src/hyph/en.xml?rev=1.1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup">view</jump></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>es</td>
<td>Spanish</td>
<td><jump href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/src/hyph/es.xml?rev=1.1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup">view</jump></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>fi</td>
<td>Finnish</td>
<td><jump href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/src/hyph/fi.xml?rev=1.1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup">view</jump></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>hu</td>
<td>Hungarian</td>
<td><jump href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/src/hyph/hu.xml?rev=1.1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup">view</jump></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>it</td>
<td>Italian</td>
<td><jump href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/src/hyph/it.xml?rev=1.1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup">view</jump></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>pl</td>
<td>Polish</td>
<td><jump href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/src/hyph/pl.xml?rev=1.1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup">view</jump></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>pt</td>
<td>Portuguese</td>
<td><jump href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/src/hyph/pt.xml?rev=1.1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup">view</jump></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ru</td>
<td>Russian</td>
<td><jump href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/src/hyph/ru.xml?rev=1.1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup">view</jump></td>
</tr>
</table>
</section>
<section id="custom">
<title>Custom Hyphenation Support</title>
<section id="custom-intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
<p>FOP uses Liang's hyphenation algorithm, well known from TeX. It needs
language specific pattern and other data for operation.</p>
<p>Because of <link href="#license-issues">licensing issues</link>,
there are currently some significant holes in FOP's hyphenation support.
The information in this section is intended to help you work around these
limitations, if possible, add support for other languages, or enhance FOP's
support of current languages.</p>
<note>If you have access to hyphenation patterns that are licensed in an
Apache-compatible way, or if you have made improvements to an existing FOP
hyphenation pattern, or if you have created one from scratch, please
consider contributing these to FOP so that they can benefit other FOP users
as well. Please inquire on the <link href="maillist.html#fop-user">FOP User
mailing list</link>.</note>
</section>
<section id="custom-license-issues">
<title>License Issues</title>
<p>Many of the hyphenation files distributed with TeX and its offspring are
licenced under the <fork href="http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.html">LaTeX
Project Public License (LPPL)</fork>, 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="custom-sources">
<title>Sources of Custom Hyphenation Pattern Files</title>
<p>The most important source of hyphenation pattern files is the
<fork href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation/">CTAN TeX
Archive</fork>.</p>
</section>
<section id="custom-install">
<title>Installing Custom Hyphenation Patterns</title>
<p>To install custom 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}/src/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 <link href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso639.txt">ISO
639</link> (languages) and <link href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso3166.txt">ISO
3166</link> (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 two ways to make the FOP-compatible hyphenation pattern file
accessible to FOP:
<ul>
<li>Place the FOP-compatible hyphenation pattern file into the
directory {fop-dir}/src/hyph and rebuild FOP. The file will be picked
up and added to fop.jar.</li>
<li>Put the file into a directory of your choice and configure FOP to
look for custom patterns in this directory, by setting the
<link href="configuration.html#hyphenation-dir"><hyphenation-dir>
configuration option</link>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
</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 <link href="#std">Standard
Hyphenation Support</link> or the source distribution (src/hyph) 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
<link href="maillist.html#fop-user">FOP User mailing list</link>, 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 is available on many Unix/Linux distributions and every TeX
distribution which can be used to assist in
creating pattern files from dictionaries. Pattern creation for languages like
english or german is an art. If you can, read Frank Liang's original paper
"Word Hy-phen-a-tion by Com-pu-ter" (yes, with hyphens). It is not available
online. The original patgen.web source, included in the TeX source distributions,
contains valuable comments, unfortunately technical details obscure often the
high level issues. Another important source is
<fork href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/knuth/tex/texbook.tex">The
TeX Book</fork>, 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 alos give some much needed insigth into problems arising in automated
hyphenation.</p>
</section>
</body>
</document>
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