Re: db2latex hyphenation in tt font

Hi,

In message <[email protected]>
on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:05:56PM +0000, Brian McGurk wrote:
> Does anyone know how to enable hyphenation in typewriter fonts in
> LaTeX? My document has a lot of long API function names which db2latex
> formats using \texttt{ReallyLongFunctionName}. Many of these end up
> spilling over the end of the line and LaTeX refuses to hypehenate and
> break them.

There are a number of approaches. But, basically, hyphenation is not
easily supported for typewriter fonts. The DB2LaTeX snapshots provide
workarounds by default, though the linebreaks occur only if the text
contains punctuation. (There is also an alternative method, which is not
enabled by default, but I think it has the same limitation). All I can
think for a general solution to your problem is to produce a template
that will allow hyphenation/linebreaks for capital letters (in addition
to punctuation). Maybe this is a good idea for DB2LaTeX's default
behaviour, too?? I imagine this "solution" would insert 'soft hyphens'
before *every* capital letter. An alternative would be to allow
linebreaks before every capital letter (i.e. don't insert the hyphen,
just break the line). Maybe this should be configurable? Unfortunately,
there's a problem implementing it: XSLT 1.0 doesn't have an efficient
way to match 'capital letters' and EXSLT regex extensions are not widely
supported. For you, perhaps you could use XML entities to assist. For
example, replace:

    <function>ReallyLongFunctionName</function>

with

    <!ENTITY ReallyLongFunctionName "<function>Really<?latex \-?>Long<?latex \-?>Function<?latex \-?>Name</function>"?
    ...
    &ReallyLongFunctionName;

The ENTITY line is all one line. Ugly, I know, but it should work.
Then, in the body of your document, use &ReallyLongFunctionName; to
refer back to the entity.




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