[ more or less fullquoting for upstream ] Hi, Steve Wolter wrote: > after some not-so-pleasant tries to use and then to patch libhyphen > (back then it was called libhnj) early last year, I've reimplemented > the algorithm in C++ in a library called libhyphenate. > > I deem libhyphenate considerably easier to use. In addition to all > libhyphen features, it supports system-central storage of hyphenation > pattern files, hyphenation at all possible hyphenation points, hyphe- > nation of text such that it optimally fits a given width (in characters) > and hyphenation using the libhyphen-style hyphens array. > > In addition, it fixes the libhyphen TODO of handling UTF-8 characters > and the not yet filed bug that, for some languages, an hyphenation-free > zone at the start and end of each word is needed to hyphenate correctly. > > If you want to have a look yourself and test this (bold) claim, the > source code can be found at: > http://swolter.sdf1.org/libhyphenate_1-current.tar.gz > > In order to avoid having two libraries around doing essentially the > same thing, I've reimplemented the public libhnj/libhyphen interface > for libhyphenate. You can find the implementation at: > http://swolter.sdf1.org/libhyphen-hyphenate-1.0.tar.gz > > What do you think of the work? I don't think we (as the Debian maintainers) are the persons to decide whether/when upstream will switch zo libhyphenate. I think we should involve upstream (and the author of libhyphen) in this (Cced) Lazlo/tl, what you do you think of this? > If you find it workable, I'd love to try and test whether it works > properly in the current OpenOffice environment. If not, however, Well, it's OpenOffice.org, but yes, you can try. If it's indeed a 1:1 replacement and you can make sure it works as intended we can think of trying it. But I don't see the need for a hurry for it now. > I'd like to point out that libhyphenate needs a Debian sponsor ;-). This should be doable :) Regards. Rene
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