Re: [docbook-apps] Disabling hyphenation on selected strings

[Ron Catterall <ron@catterall.net>]

Title: Re: [docbook-apps] Disabling hyphenation on selected strin

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')]]"  -->

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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 <span
> type="no-hyphens">Do not hyphenate
> this text</span> Hyphenate anywhere here</para>
>
> Is this possible?
>
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