Hyphenation

Hyphenation Dictionaries

The Oxygen XML Author provides built-in hyphenation patterns for the following languages:


Code	Language
da	Danish
de	German
de_CH	German (Switzerland)
en	English
en-GB	English (Great Britain)
es	Spanish
fr	French
it	Italian
nb	Norwegian Bokmål
nl	Dutch
ro	Romanian
ru	Russian
sv	Swedish
th	Thai
pt	Portuguese
da	Danish

The built-in hyphenation pattern license terms are listed in the XML files in the [CHEMISTRY_INSTALL_DIR]/config/hyph folder. Most of them comply with the LaTex distribution policy.

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Installing New Hyphenation Dictionaries

Oxygen XML Author uses the TeX hyphenation dictionaries converted to XML by the OFFO project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/offo/.

The .xml files allow you to access the licensing terms and you can use them as a starting point to create customized dictionaries (see How to Alter a Hyphenation Dictionary).

The .hyp files are the compiled dictionaries that the Oxygen XML Author actually uses.

One simple way to add more dictionaries:

Download and extract the offo-hyphenation-compiled.zip file. This file is a bundle of many dictionary files.
Copy the fop-hyph.jar file to the [OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR]/lib directory.
If you just need a single dictionary, place the .hyp or .xml file in the [OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR]/config/hyph directory (create that directory if it is missing).

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How to Alter a Hyphenation Dictionary

You can copy the dictionaries you need to change in another directory, then use the -hyph-dir parameter to refer them inside your transformation.

Each file is named with the language code and has the following structure:

<hyphenation-info>

<hyphen-min before="2" after="3"/>

<exceptions>
o-mni-bus
...
</exceptions>

<patterns>
préémi3nent.
proémi3nent.
surémi3nent.
....
</patterns>

</hyphenation-info>

To change the behavior of the hyphenation, you can modify either the patterns or the exceptions sections:

exceptions: Contains the list of words that are not processed using the patterns, each on a single line. Each of the words should indicate the hyphenation points using the hyphen ("-") character. If a word does not contain this character, it will not be hyphenated.
For example, o-mni-bus will match the omnibus word and will indicate two possible hyphenation points.
Note: Compound words (i.e. e-mail) cannot be controlled by exception words.
patterns: Contains the list of patterns, each on a single line. A pattern is a word fragment, not a word. The numbers from the patterns indicate how desirable a hyphen is at that position.
For example, tran3s2act indicates that the possible hyphenation points are "tran-s-act" and the preferable point is the first one, having the higher score of "3".

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How to Enable Hyphenation for Entire Map

To enable hyphenation for your entire map:

Make sure you set an @xml:lang attribute on the root of your map, or set the default.language parameter in the transformation.
In your customization CSS, add:
```
:root {
    hyphens: auto;
}
```
To except certain elements from being hyphenated, use hyphens:none. The following example excludes the <keyword> elements from being hyphenated:
```
*[class ~= "topic/keyword"] {
    hyphens: none;
}
```

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How to Enable/Disable Hyphenation for an Element

Make sure you set an @xml:lang attribute on the root of your map, or set the default.language parameter in the transformation.
You have two options to control hyphenation inside an XML element:
CSS Approach

Use the hyphens property.
For example, if you want to enable hyphenation in codeblocks:
```
*[class~="pr-d/codeblock"] {
    hyphens: auto;
}
```
If you want to disable hyphenation inside tables:
```
*[class~="topic/table"] {
    hyphens: none;
}
```
Attribute Approach

Use the @outputclass="hyphens" or @outputclass="no-hyphens" attributes/values.
For example, if you want to enable hyphenation in codeblocks:
```
<codeblock outputclass="hyphens">
  ...
</codeblock>
```
If you want to disable hyphenation inside tables:
```
<table outputclass="no-hyphens" ...>
  ...
</table>
```
Note: The default built-in CSS enables hyphenation for tables:
```
*[class ~= "topic/table"] {
    hyphens: auto;
}
```

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How to Define Hyphenation for a Specific Word

Create a new hyphenation dictionary.
Add the word under the <exceptions> section using hard hyphen symbols between its segments.
To make sure the words from your document match against the ones from the "exceptions", make sure that you add capitalized/lower case variants as well.

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How to Force or Avoid Line Breaks at Hyphens

It is possible to force or avoid line breaks inside words with hyphens (U+2010). This can be useful, for example, inside tables that have product references if you want the display to remain on a single line (or to split it on multiple lines). To achieve this, you can use the -oxy-break-line-at-hyphens property:

The accepted values are:

auto: Words are hyphenated automatically according to an algorithm that is driven by a hyphenation dictionary. This can lead to line breaks at hyphens.
avoid: Words are still hyphenated automatically except no line break will occur on hyphens.
always: Words are still hyphenated automatically except line breaks will be forced on hyphens.

Example:

Suppose you have a products table like this:

<table>
  <row>
    <cell>Product-1233-55-88</cell>
    <cell>120</cell>
  <row>
  <row>
    <cell>Product-1244-66-99</cell>
    <cell>112</cell>
  <row>
</table>

and the following rule in a CSS stylesheet:

table {
  -oxy-break-line-at-hyphens: avoid;
}

In the output, the list of product references will be displayed in a single line. On the contrary, setting the property value to always, will force a break after each hyphen.