RTF::Writer hyphens removed

inblosam has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I noticed an issue where all my hyphens are removed with RTF::Writer. I pass in a variable that contains the text, and if any hyphens are present they do not show up in the RTF document.

$some_text = 'Hello this-is-a-hyphenated-sentence';

$rtf->paragraph(
\'\fs24',
$some_text
);
}
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Even when I just write in a hyphen it is removed, as in:

$rtf->paragraph(
\'\fs24\b',
"Anniversary-Date: $anniv_date",\'\line'
);
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They hyphen is just removed and so the words are scrunched together.

Is there something I have to do to allow for hyphenations or something?

Thanks

Michael Jensen

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Re: RTF::Writer hyphens removed by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 06, 2005 at 22:11 UTC
`paragraph` is expecting to be gives some rich text, yet you are passing it plain text. Use `rtfesc` to fix special characters such as "`-`". `use RTF::Writer qw( rtfesc ); $some_text = 'Hello this-is-a-hyphenated-sentence'; $rtf->paragraph( \'\fs24', rtfesc($some_text) ); $rtf->paragraph( \'\fs24\b', rtfesc("Anniversary-Date: $anniv_date"), \'\line' ); # or $rtf->paragraph( \'\fs24\b', rtfesc("Anniversary-Date: $anniv_date\n") );` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: RTF::Writer hyphens removed by inblosam (Monk) on Jul 07, 2005 at 01:53 UTC
I tried the rtfesc and I get really weird characters in my RTF... With the text: 'It-has-some-dashes' it shows: It\_has\_some\_dashes\'2e I did just as explained above. Michael Jensen	[reply]
Re^3: RTF::Writer hyphens removed by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 07, 2005 at 04:30 UTC
Sorry, I was sure I had figured it out -- I have no experience with the module or with RTF -- but it seems I was wrong.	[reply]
Re: RTF::Writer hyphens removed by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 06, 2005 at 22:19 UTC
The following from RTF spef 1.6 may be of use: \pgnhnsm Em-dash (—) separator character. \pgnhnsn En-dash (–) separator character. \emdash Em-dash (—). \endash En-dash (–). \- Optional hyphen. \_ Nonbreaking hyphen. Perl is Huffman encoded by design.	[reply]