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| <h2>Lingucomponent Sub-Project: Hyphenation</h2> |
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| <p>One of the goals of this projects is to improve the quality of the |
| hyphenator and include more hyphenation dictionaries from various languages.</p> |
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| <p>The OpenOffice.org hyphenator was based on the libhnj library by Raph Levien. It |
| uses TeX hyphenation dictionaries with small corrections. |
| There are many <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries"> currently supported languages</a>.</p> |
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| <p> It is reasonably easy to port the TeX hyphenation dictionary (usually located |
| in <strong>tex/generic/hyphen/</strong> directory of TeX tree) to OpenOffice.org's |
| hyphenation format. To help with hyphenation dictionary |
| creation there is a <strong><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143754&package_id=231949">standalone version of the |
| hyphenation code</a></strong> available with a simple example program |
| that can be used for development and testing. Some hints follow:</p> |
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| <li>You need to replace or remove all TeX macroses from library.</li> |
| <li>You need to call <tt>substrings.pl</tt> (can be found in the standalone hyphenator |
| linked above).<br /> |
| Usage: <tt>substrings.pl <patterns.dic> <newpatterns.dic></tt><br /> |
| This will write the modified file to <tt>newpatterns.dic</tt>.</li> |
| <li>You need to put an indicator of the character encoding used |
| as the first line of the dictionary file (look in <tt>hyph_en.dic</tt>). |
| Possible values are: ISO8859-1, ISO8859-2, ..., ISO8859-10, KOI8-R </li> |
| <li>See <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensions_development">Extensions development</a> |
| on how to deploy your hyphenation dictionary in OpenOffice.org.</li> |
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