[jira] [Commented] (FOP-2358) Soft hyphen is not retained on copy/paste

["Vincent Hennebert (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Vincent Hennebert commented on FOP-2358:
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If you [enable accessibility|http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.1/accessibility.html], then the actual text (without any hyphenation character) will be stored in the output using special PDF constructs.

I realise that this is not what you're asking, but it might be an acceptable work-around.

To actually get the soft hyphen copy-pasted, we would have to replace the hyphen-minus (U+002D) that is currently used with a soft hyphen (U+00AD), but it's more easily said than done.

We would have to put in place a custom encoding of some sort that targets the font's hyphen glyph to display on the screen (more precisely, the hyphenation character set in the FO file by the hyphenation-character property), but returns the soft hyphen on copy-paste (thanks to an appropriate entry in the ToUnicode CMap).

But distinction would also have to be made between a soft hyphen that was manually added to the input text, and a hyphen that was automatically generated by the hyphenation process. And that distinction is not there at the moment.

Not impossible to achieve, but a bit of work.

> Soft hyphen is not retained on copy/paste
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FOP-2358
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2358
>             Project: Fop
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.1
>         Environment: $ fop -v
> FOP Version 1.1
> $ java -version
> java version "1.7.0_51"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_51-b13)
> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)
>            Reporter: Mark Craig
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: render-shy.fo, render-shy.pdf
>
>
> Soft hyphen is rendered as hyphen + space.
> As a result, when the text that originally contained a soft hyphen is copied and pasted to an editor capable of ignoring soft hyphens or recalculating the hyphenation, the "hard" hyphen remains.
> This is particularly unhelpful in hyphenated literals such as URLs or OIDs, where adding a hyphen + space means that the copy is broken.



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