Bug#526092: fop wrapper script doesn't easily support hyphenation jar

Vincent Fourmond fourmond at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 08:28:22 UTC 2009


  Hello,

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Paul Millar <paul.millar at desy.de> wrote:
> Previous versions of fop deb package contained /usr/bin/fop as some fop-specific script that allowed it's
> behaviour to be tailored through parameters held in an external file: /etc/fop.conf.  In that file, the
> variable FOP_HYPHENATION_PATH may be specified, allowing one to easily alter the behaviour of the
> distributed /usr/bin/fop script so it includes hyphenation support.
>
> The most recent version of fop appears to have switched to using java_wrappers.  In doing so, support for
> /etc/fop.conf appears to have been lost and there seems to be no other mechanism for specifying the
> hyphenation jar file.
>
> As a work-around, I have manually edited /usr/bin/fop to include the line:
>
> find_jars /usr/local/share/java/fop-hyph.jar
>
> However, I feel this is undesirable as this is a configuration, so better recorded within /etc.
> find_jars /usr/local/share/java/fop-hyph.jar

  Thanks for your report. I'll add that back as soon as I can (say,
tomorrow ?). Where could I find this hypenation jar ?

  Cheers,

      Vincent





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