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| | | Question about splitCharacter | Question about splitCharacter 2007-11-09 - By Paulo Soares
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It looks like you expect the splitCharacter to automagically guess what
your requirement are. You have the full line, it's up to you to find the
suitable algorithm. You'll have to lay down all the splitting cases and
the outcomes and infer the algorithm from there.
Paulo
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: itext-questions-bounces@(protected)
> [mailto:itext-questions-bounces@(protected)] On
> Behalf Of Tom Tolman
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 2:37 PM
> To: itext-questions@(protected)
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Question about splitCharacter
>
> The idea of looking at the past and future character is a good one for
> solving this particular instance, but it is not clear to me how it can
> be applied to the general instance.
>
> In the specific instance brought up, the text is wrapping on
> (hello) in
> this manner:
>
> (hello
> )
>
> This can be corrected by not allowing ) to be included in the split
> characters if it is at the end of the line. However, what
> about in the
> case where it is followed by a period (hello).
>
> This would then break in that case
> (hello
> ).
>
> So we could then get around this by saying - okay it is not a split
> character followed by a period. But then we come back to the case
> (aaaa)bbb
>
> If the table cell is a specific width, then (aaaa will fit,
> and then it
> will wrap like this:
> (aaaa
> )bbb
>
> When one really wants it to be:
> (aaaa)
> bbb
>
>
> A possible workaround to this might be- no longer consider
> the ) to be a
> split character, but instead say- the character FOLLOWING ) is a split
> character. But then we will run into this type of splitting
> (aaa)b
> bbbb
>
>
> Is there an aspect of this I am misconstruing?
>
> Thank you,
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