I have created a small Java Swing application to generate PDFs of XML files here at my workplace. I need to enable hyphenation, as I have some text in tables that flows outside the cell borders.
I have downloaded the OFFO Compiled Hyphenation Patterns for FOP and placed the fop-hyph.jar file alongside my fop.jar in my "lib" folder.
When I run the application I get the following error:
Jan 20, 2016 2:57:43 PM org.apache.fop.hyphenation.Hyphenator getHyphenationTree
SEVERE: Couldn't find hyphenation pattern for lang="en",country="US".
I am using FOP 2.0 and have the following entry in my fop.xconf file:
<hyphenation-pattern lang="en">en_US</hyphenation-pattern>
I have also tried this with no difference:
<hyphenation-pattern lang="en" country="US">en_US</hyphenation-pattern>
On the root of the XSL-FO file I have entered:
<fo:root font-family="Helvetica" language="en" country="US" hyphenate="true">
What am I missing to get this working? Everything else works fine, creates PDFs correctly.
According to the hyphenation pattern installation instruction, the pattern file for American English is called just en.xml, so in the configuration file you should have:
<hyphenation-pattern lang="en">en</hyphenation-pattern>
By the way, the entries in the configuration file are only needed when you want something different from the default behaviour, so in this case you could omit it completely.