The Folio project announces the initial release of its stand-alone hyphenation module, HyFo.
HyFo is released in binary form as jar files and in source form as zip files. See http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=119136 HyFo features include: * Hyphenation patterns embedding re-spelling hyphenation, such as are required in Dutch, Hungarian, Swedish, Catalan and pre-reform German orthography. These are the hyphenations expressed by the TeX discretionary hyphenation facility. This feature is currently active only in the Hungarian patterns, and in a special versions of the GB and US files with the variant "_18", that is, the hyphenation trees en_US_18 and en_GB_18. * Easy quarantining of unacceptable licences from your application. Because the hyphenation trees, built from individual language pattern files, are themselves stand-alone, users can pick and choose the pattern jars they wish to install, insulating applications from the effects of particular licences. * No rebuilding required to add new pre-built hyphenation pattern trees. Adding a new pre-compiled hyphenation instance is as simple as dropping a new language jar onto the classpath. * Integration with Java 2D text processing is provided. Hyphenation attributes can be processed along with other text attributes by AttributedCharacterIterators. * HyFo hyphenation is fast; more than 50% faster than the Fop hyphenator. HyFo trades off memory usage and one-off start-up time against the speed of hyphenating individual instances. * The HyFo API includes methods to present hyphenation results in a FOP-compatible manner. * HyFo supports alphabets containing supplementary Unicode characters. There are no known requirements for Liang-style pattern hyphenation of such alphabets. See the HyFo web pages at http://defoe.sourceforge.net/hyfo/hyfo.html -- Peter B. West <http://cv.pbw.id.au/> Folio <http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/>
