Bug 44124

Right, as soon as you enable white-space-treatment="preserve" the
hyphenation-character is just ignored. Otherwise, the hyphenation
character works fine. Can you please open an issue in Bugzilla and add
your files there? We'll have to look into this.
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/

Unfortunately, I could not come up with a work-around.

On 20.12.2007 21:37:19 Xuan Ngo wrote:
> I tried to change the hyphenation-character with a backslash in 
<programlisting> tag but it is
 not
> appearing in the pdf output. However, long line in pdf are broken down to 
multiple lines.
> Can some1 tell me what is wrong with my customization layer?
> I'm using Docbook 1.73.2 and FOP v0.94.
> 
> Here is my customization layer:
>     <xsl:param name="hyphenate.verbatim" select="1"></xsl:param>
>     
>     <xsl:attribute-set name="monospace.verbatim.properties"
> use-attribute-sets="verbatim.properties monospace.properties">
>       <xsl:attribute name="wrap-option">wrap</xsl:attribute>
>       <xsl:attribute name="hyphenation-character">\</xsl:attribute>
>     </xsl:attribute-set>
> 
> I also attach all required files in case that they are needed.
> 
> thx!
>