Improve the word-wrapping/word-breaking support

fref commented 8 years ago

As of now, word-wrapping happens at word boundaries. (through TextSequenceUtil.drawText -> wordWrapToLines -> wordWrapToLines) This can be annoying for small columns where a single big word needs to be inserted or if Justify is supported as alignment someday.

It would be nice to be able to

force a line break inside the word if there is not enough place to put the word on the line (and there is no "white space" available for pdfbox-layout to break automatically) ("hard cut")
provide a "strategy" when drawing a TextFlow that would hint to pdfbox-layout where clean "soft cuts" can be inserted into a word (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphenation_algorithm)
make pdfbox-layout write an hyphen when a soft/hard cut happened (maybe a configurable character for hard cut)

ralfstuckert commented 7 years ago

Added word breaking as a strategy for 0.8.5, but I still have to write some doc on this topic

ralfstuckert commented 7 years ago

See wiki page on word break

fref commented 7 years ago

Brilliant!

ralfstuckert / pdfbox-layout

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