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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Hyphenation issues
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-03-18 19:51:47
Message-ID: 200403182051.47781.faure () kde ! org
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 13:06, Prof. Dr. Eduard Werner / Edward Wornar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> it seems to me that kword simply refuses to hyphen a word, so that less than 
> two characters remain or get moved to the next line. Are there any variables 
> in the *.dic file that can be used to adjust this (like \lefthyphenmin in 
> TeX). Much worse, if I have a 6-character word like
> 
> zmylki (that's Upper Sorbian for "errors")
> 
> and a minimal dic-file
> 
> UTF-8
> y2l1k
> 
> the word gets hyphened "zmy-lki" which is wrong (I want "zmyl-ki"). If I take 
> a longer form like "zmylkach" it gets hyphened correctly. 
> 
> Furthermore, I'm using unicode input and a unicode .dic-file. However, 
> patterns with non-ASCII characters seem to get ignored. My try to hyphen
> "lětnymaj" (yearly, dat.du.) with a pattern "ě1t1n2" simply fail.

We use OpenOffice's hyphenation library (libhnj) and dicts.
Do you get the same there?
If yes it will have to be reported to them (or directly to the libhnj developers,
but I'm not sure what's the best way to do that).

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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