Package org.daisy.dotify.api.hyphenator

Interface HyphenatorFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

CWHyphenatorFactory, JHyphenatorFactory, LatexHyphenatorFactory

public interface HyphenatorFactory

Provides a hyphenation factory interface. This interface is used to retreive a hyphenator instance.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static String	FEATURE_HYPHENATION_ACCURACY	Defines hyphenation accuracy on a scale from 1 to 5 (integer):

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Object	getFeature(String key)	Gets the value of a hyphenation feature.
HyphenatorInterface	newHyphenator(String locale)	Returns a new hyphenator configured for the specified locale.
void	setFeature(String key, Object value)	Sets the value of a hyphenation feature.

Field Detail

FEATURE_HYPHENATION_ACCURACY

static final String FEATURE_HYPHENATION_ACCURACY

Defines hyphenation accuracy on a scale from 1 to 5 (integer):

• 5 is high accuracy, low performance
• 3 is medium accuracy, medium performance
• 1 is low accuracy, high performance

Not all values must be implemented to support this feature. It is recommended, but not strictly required, that an implementation sends a log message when this feature is set to an unsupported value.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

newHyphenator

HyphenatorInterface newHyphenator(String locale)
                           throws HyphenatorConfigurationException

Returns a new hyphenator configured for the specified locale.

Parameters:

locale - a valid locale for the new hyphenator, as defined by IETF RFC 3066

Returns:

returns a new hyphenator

Throws:

HyphenatorConfigurationException - if the locale is not supported

getFeature

Object getFeature(String key)

Gets the value of a hyphenation feature.

Parameters:

key - the feature to get the value for

Returns:

returns the value, or null if not set

setFeature

void setFeature(String key,
                Object value)
         throws HyphenatorConfigurationException

Sets the value of a hyphenation feature.

Parameters:

key - the feature to set the value for

value - the value for the feature

Throws:

HyphenatorConfigurationException - if the feature is not supported