Re: Soft hyphens in ReportLab

Robin Becker <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:30:19 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.python.reportlab.user
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On 09/03/2020 15:33, Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
> When you add soft hyphens (&shy; = &#173;) as hints for splitting long words, they are recognized by ReportLab 3.5.34, 
> but differently from HTML, they are always displayed, even inside the words. In HTML, you will only see the soft hyphen 
> as visible hyphen where they actually split the word. Are soft hyphens supposed to work that way in ReportLab or should 
> it be considered a bug?
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probably it's a bug; there is some code related to _hy_shy=u'0xad' which is supposed to be doing soft hyphenation support.
linebreaking is the worst feature of reportlab.
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Robin Becker