com.lowagie.text.pdf.hyphenation: public class: Hyphen

com.lowagie.text.pdf.hyphenation
public class: Hyphen [javadoc | source]

java.lang.Object
   com.lowagie.text.pdf.hyphenation.Hyphen

All Implemented Interfaces:
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

Field Summary
public String	preBreak
public String	noBreak
public String	postBreak

Constructor:
Hyphen(String pre) { preBreak = pre; noBreak = null; postBreak = null; }
Hyphen(String pre, String no, String post) { preBreak = pre; noBreak = no; postBreak = post; }

Constructor:

 Hyphen(String pre) {
        preBreak = pre;
        noBreak = null;
        postBreak = null;
}

 Hyphen(String pre,
    String no,
    String post) {
          
        preBreak = pre;
        noBreak = no;
        postBreak = post;
}

Method from com.lowagie.text.pdf.hyphenation.Hyphen Summary:
toString

Methods from java.lang.Object:
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method from com.lowagie.text.pdf.hyphenation.Hyphen Detail:
public String toString() { if (noBreak == null && postBreak == null && preBreak != null && preBreak.equals("-")) { return "-"; } StringBuffer res = new StringBuffer("{"); res.append(preBreak); res.append("}{"); res.append(postBreak); res.append("}{"); res.append(noBreak); res.append('}"); return res.toString(); }

Method from com.lowagie.text.pdf.hyphenation.Hyphen Detail:

 public String toString() {
        if (noBreak == null 
                && postBreak == null 
                && preBreak != null
                && preBreak.equals("-")) {
            return "-";
                }
        StringBuffer res = new StringBuffer("{");
        res.append(preBreak);
        res.append("}{");
        res.append(postBreak);
        res.append("}{");
        res.append(noBreak);
        res.append('}");
        return res.toString();
}