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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: automatic syllabification in KWord
From:       Thomas Diehl <thd () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-11-27 9:40:52
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Am Dienstag, 26. November 2002 09:18 schrieb Thomas Diehl:
> Am Dienstag, 26. November 2002 00:45 schrieb Nicolas Goutte:
> > On Monday 25 November 2002 21:23, Marco Hugentobler wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I couldn' t find any automatic syllabification in KWord. Did i overlook
> > > something or isn' t there such a function?
> >
> > There is not any such function. You will have to add soft hyphens where
> > you find that words are too long.
> >
> > I suppose that the main reason why it is missing is that such features
> > are language-dependant. For now, German writing people have complained
> > the most, but nobody has volunteered to do any work in this direction.
>
> Lukas Tinkl said he was working on a port of the TeX hyphenation and that
> part of it already was in CVS (not yet enabled). When finished, it should
> get us support for a lot of languages.

Don't know if this could be of use for KOffice/KWord: the DTP program Scribus 
already has a hyphenation plugin, based on TeX and Open Office:

http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/hyphenator.html

Thomas

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