de.dante.extex.interpreter.primitives.hyphen
Class Hyphenation

java.lang.Object
  de.dante.extex.interpreter.type.AbstractCode
      de.dante.extex.interpreter.primitives.hyphen.AbstractHyphenationCode
          de.dante.extex.interpreter.primitives.hyphen.HyphenationPrimitive
              de.dante.extex.interpreter.primitives.hyphen.Hyphenation

All Implemented Interfaces:

Code, Localizable, java.io.Serializable

public class Hyphenation

extends HyphenationPrimitive

This class provides an implementation for the primitive \hyphenation.

The Primitive \hyphenation

The primitive \hyphenation can be used to add hyphenation exceptions to the current language. The argument is a list of white-space separated words enclosed in braces. The hyphenation points are indicated by including a hyphen character (-) at the appropriate places.

When paragraph breaking needs to insert additional break points these hyphenation points are translated into discretionaries. The exceptions specified with the primitive \hyphenation have precedence before the hyphenation points found with the help of hyphenation patterns.

One example which make use of this precedence is the hyphenation exception without any hyphen characters. This can be used to suppress any hyphenation in a single word.

Extension

In addition to the behavior of the original TeX definition this implementation can be used to insert words with hyphens as well. To specify the places where a hyphen occurs literally you just ave to include two hyphens in the hyphenation list.

Syntax

    ⟨hyphenation⟩
     → \hyphenation {...}  

Example:

   \hyphenation{as-so-ciate as-so-ciates}  

   \hyphenation{Groß--Ger-au}  

Version:

$Revision: 1.20 $

Author:

Gerd Neugebauer, Michael Niedermair

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Serialized Form

serialVersionUID

protected static final long serialVersionUID

The constant serialVersionUID contains the id for serialization.

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Constant Field Values

Hyphenation

public Hyphenation(java.lang.String name)

Creates a new object.

Parameters:

name - the name for debugging

collectWord

protected UnicodeCharList collectWord(Context context,
                                      TokenSource source,
                                      Token token)
                               throws InterpreterException,
                                      CatcodeException

Collect all characters that make up a word.

Overrides:

collectWord in class HyphenationPrimitive

Parameters:

context - the interpreter context

source - the source for new tokens

token - the first token already read

Returns:

the first character not included into the word

Throws:

InterpreterException - in case of an error

CatcodeException - in case of an exception in token creation