vandeseer
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4 years ago Also from my point of view that would indeed be the best solution. I would definitely not implement this as part of easytable though but that should be a library of its own.
There are already libraries that can do more elaborated line breaking (as discussed on stackoverflow) like:
- https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text/javadocs/api-release/org/apache/commons/text/WordUtils.html
- https://github.com/davidmoten/word-wrap
One could think about integrating any of those (maybe with scope provided in the pom.xml file) and creating a property for text cells where one can select the library or function to use for word wrapping.
Not sure though if it is worth the effort. Issue #77 for instance is easy to solve with a cell type of its own and issue #79 is already improving the current mechanism.
Line breaking seems to be a common issue (#79 #77) that could be addressed once and for all by implementing the Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm.
It's probably a lot of effort to implement fully but would also allow correct hyphenation on long words.