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I'd like to be able to mark arbitrary subsections of para elements as
"non-hyphenatable", something like this:

<para>Hyphenate anywhere here Do not hyphenate
this text Hyphenate anywhere here</para>

Is this possible?

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On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Andrew McFarland <aamcfarland@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to be able to mark arbitrary subsections of para elements as
> "non-hyphenatable", something like this:
>
> <para>Hyphenate anywhere here Do not hyphenate
> this text Hyphenate anywhere here</para>

Hi,

We use the <phrase> inline and a @role attribute behavior to implement
this in our customization. You'll need to check on what works with
your FO processor, but we add these two attributes to our current
fo:inline when we hit a matching phrase:

<xsl:attribute
name="keep-together.within-line">always</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="hyphenate">false</xsl:attribute>


HTH,
Keith

Andrew
This works for me.  I was having
trouble with URLs which got hyphenated and new lined.  For DB 4.5
remove the d: bits.  Messy but it seems to work OK with XEP. 
I've never tested it with FOP, but it might work.  Early FOP has
some problems with keep-together, possibly fixed by now.
Ron




<!--
====================================================================
-->

<!--

Allow use of

  <phrase
role="keep-together">qwerty</phrase>

to prevent hyphenation and a line break within the phrase

 -->


<xsl:template match="d:phrase[@role[contains(.,
'keep-together')]]">

 
<xsl:param
name="no-hyphenate" select="false()"/>

 
<xsl:param
name="content">

    <xsl:apply-templates/>

 
</xsl:param>

 
<fo:inline
xsl:use-attribute-sets="monospace.properties" font-family="{$body.font.family}">

    <xsl:if test="@role[contains(.,
'keep-together')]">

      <xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-line">always</xsl:attribute>

      <xsl:attribute name="hyphenate">false</xsl:attribute>

    </xsl:if>

    <xsl:choose>

      <xsl:when test="$no-hyphenate">

       
<xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-line">always</xsl:attribute>

       
<xsl:attribute name="hyphenate">false</xsl:attribute>

      </xsl:when>

      <xsl:otherwise>

             <!-- this is a
zero-width space to intentionally provoke an AntennaHouse bug.

                  The FO spec says that
hyphenation-character can only be on fo:block and

                  fo:character, but having
anything here provides the correct result. -->

       
<xsl:attribute name="hyphenation-character">

         
<xsl:value-of select="'&#x200B;'"/>

       
</xsl:attribute>

      </xsl:otherwise>

    </xsl:choose>

    <xsl:choose>

      <xsl:when test="ancestor::d:footnote">

       
<xsl:attribute name="font-size">85%</xsl:attribute>

      </xsl:when>

    </xsl:choose>

      <xsl:if test="@dir">

       
<xsl:attribute name="direction">

         
<xsl:choose>

           
<xsl:when
test="@dir = 'ltr' or @dir = 'lro'">ltr</xsl:when>

           
<xsl:otherwise>rtl</xsl:otherwise>

         
</xsl:choose>

       
</xsl:attribute>

      </xsl:if>

    <xsl:copy-of select="$content"/>

 
</fo:inline>

</xsl:template>     <!-- END
match="d:phrase[@role[contains(., 'keep-together')]]" 
-->


<!--
====================================================================
-->




I'd like to be able to mark arbitrary
subsections of para elements as

"non-hyphenatable", something like this:


<para>Hyphenate anywhere here <span
type="no-hyphens">Do not hyphenate

this text</span> Hyphenate anywhere here</para>


Is this possible?


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