com.lowagie.text.pdf.hyphenation
Class Hyphen

java.lang.Object
  com.lowagie.text.pdf.hyphenation.Hyphen

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class Hyphen
extends Object
implements 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

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Serialized Form

Field Summary

String	noBreak
String	postBreak
String	preBreak
private static long	serialVersionUID

Constructor Summary

Hyphen(String pre)

Hyphen(String pre, String no, String post)

Method Summary

String

toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

serialVersionUID

private static final long serialVersionUID

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Constant Field Values

preBreak

public String preBreak

noBreak

public String noBreak

postBreak

public String postBreak

Constructor Detail

Hyphen

Hyphen(String pre,
       String no,
       String post)

Hyphen

Hyphen(String pre)

Method Detail

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object