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Re: Text hyphenation
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Janek Warchoł |
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Re: Text hyphenation |
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Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:34:34 +0200 |
Hi Bertrand,
2011/9/23 Bertrand Bordage <address@hidden>:
> Hi everyone,
> I started working on automatic hyphenation (see the attached PDF).
> I rewrote wordwrap-stencils into a wordwrap-markups and it works great, but
> I do have a question before continuing.
> Do you think I should start by:
> * implementing hyphenation rules;
> * creating a user-settable hyphenation list;
> * making a system that allows to specify where a word is breakable (like \-
> in LaTeX);
I vote for this because it seems most multi-language friendly. I.e.,
implementing hyphenation rules for all major languages (i'm interested
at least in english, polish and latin) seems a big pain (or are free
libraries about it avaiable?).
> * abandoning this idea and making a more serious music-only patch?
> Creating a user-settable list would certainly be the easiest thing to do,
> but is the ugliest solution.
> A mix of the three is the best: the rules for the common cases, the list for
> special cases and something like \- for more flexibility.
+1
cheers,
Janek
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