Line breaking in left-justified text with long URLs

[Chuck Bearden <cb...@rice.edu>]

I'm rather new to XSL FO and to Apache FOP, but I'm finding I enjoy
working with both tools.  I just started using trunk from svn this
morning instead of 0.92 beta.

Much of the text I am presently formatting includes longish URLs 
spelled out in the text and enclosed in angle-brackets.  I'm finding
that long unbroken strings like URLs cause some odd line-breaking 
effects in left-aligned blocks, but that justified blocks generally turn
out better.  Typically, left-aligned text that comes before the long URL
gets line-breaks at about half the width of the line, so that you see a
series of too-short lines followed by the URL.  I'm attaching both an 
FO file and a PDF built from it that illustrates the problem.  In 
case attachments get stripped by the list software or by local mail
hosts, I'm also putting the files here:

  http://www.ece.rice.edu/~cbearden/fop/

Is this expected behavior?  If not, is it a bug that I should log?  I
didn't see anything that looked like it in the list of FOP bugs, but
then I'm not confident that I would recognize it by its subject line.

Thanks to the FOP developers for their great work.

Best wishes,
Chuck
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Re: Line breaking in left-justified text with long URLs

[Chris Bowditch <bo...@hotmail.com>]

Chuck Bearden wrote:

<snip/>

>   http://www.ece.rice.edu/~cbearden/fop/
> 
> Is this expected behavior?  If not, is it a bug that I should log?  I
> didn't see anything that looked like it in the list of FOP bugs, but
> then I'm not confident that I would recognize it by its subject line.

This looks like a bug that needs to be fixed. Thanks for flagging it up. 
Can you raise a bugzilla entry for it?

> 
> Thanks to the FOP developers for their great work.
> 

Chris




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