reflow

[Roedy Green]

Gui elements will reflow text breaking into fixed length lines, but is
there anything that will do that on a string and return a string?

Will anything do hyphenation?
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[Tom Anderson]

Gui elements will reflow text breaking into fixed length lines, but is
there anything that will do that on a string and return a string?
fmt:

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?fmt

Will anything do hyphenation?

fmt won't, and i don't know anything that will, although something must
exist. i bet TeX does.

tom

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

Gui elements will reflow text breaking into fixed length lines, but is
there anything that will do that on a string and return a string?

I am not aware of anything builtin.

But it is not that hard to code.

Arne

 

[Arved Sandstrom]

fmt won't, and i don't know anything that will, although something must
exist. i bet TeX does.

tom

The latter is not the worst suggestion in the world -)), seeing as how
TeX is good at hyphenation. To get that capability in Java, one
possibility might be http://www.davidashen.net/texhyphj.html, by David
Tolpin (he used to work on XEP, which is one of the better XSLFO engines
available, so he knows his stuff).

AHS