Thomas, all,
The implementation of OOO2.2 on Windows carries the stand alone hyphenator
which DOES support at least part of the functionality.

I made a more recent post about that, notifying one example works, another
does not.

Ruud
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>> Most of the time, hyphenation is 'just' inserting a dash. But not
>> always.
>>
>> For Dutch breaking botsautootje is correct like bots-autootje and
>> botsauto-tje, the latter one by modificating the word.
>> The same happens in words like geïnd, which should be
>> hyphenated(presented) as ge-ind.
>>
>> I can think of two ways to handle these situations :
>> 1) stopping the hyphenations at these locations (simple but not elegant)
>> 2) modifying the word during hyphenation, but keeping the 'normal' form
>> for recovery while editing the text (elegant but difficult).
>>
>> Is modification of a word while hyphenating it already supported in some
>> way?
>> If not, is it somwhere in the feature request list or planning?
>>
>> Could anyone please inform me on this topic? I would like to know before
>> investing effort in starting recalibration of the Dutch hyphenation,
>> which could be necessary because rules for compounding have changed.
>
> The only thing I can contribute to it is that the API supports this (it
> is called alternative spelling). See
> http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/linguistic2/XHyphenatedWord.html
> It worked previously in StarOffice with the 'old' German spelling...
>
> The implementation of the OOo hyphenator does not make use of
> alternative spellings right now though.
>
> Thomas
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