com.itextpdf.text.pdf.hyphenation

Class Hyphen

java.lang.Object

com.itextpdf.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

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
String	noBreak
String	postBreak
String	preBreak

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

preBreak

public String preBreak

noBreak

public String noBreak

postBreak

public String postBreak

Method Detail

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object