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Bug#500867: RFP: python-pyhyphen -- Python wrapper for libhyphen



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

The rst2pdf utility (see #496864) can apparently do much better
hyphenating when the pyhyphen library is installed.  In fact, rst2pdf
currently has some bugs[0] that make hyphenating break entirely unless
pyhyphen is present.

Packaging this turns out to be a nightmare, because setup.py does
horrible things[1], and I don't have enough Python-fu to tell it to
use libhyphen-dev instead of the convenience copy.

[0] http://code.google.com/p/rst2pdf/issues/detail?id=76
[1] http://code.google.com/p/pyhyphen/issues/detail?id=2

* Package name    : python-pyhyphen
  Version         : 0.8
  Upstream Author : Dr. Leo <fhaxbox66@gmail.com>
* URL             : http://code.google.com/p/pyhyphen
* License         : GPL 2.0 | LGPL 2.1 | MPL 1.1
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Python wrapper for libhyphen

PyHyphen is a wrapper for the Python programming language around the
Open Source C library 'hyphen-2.3' originally from hnjlib. It is
widely used in software such as OpenOffice.org and Mozilla.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)



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