Look what I've just found: http://linux.org.mt/projects/jtextcheck/jtextcheck-ooohyph-plugin/index.html
It's LGPL (and so are OO's hyphenation patterns if I remember correctly) but if we provide a plug-in mechanism and host the actual adapter under the LGPL at http://offo.sourceforge.net/ we could provide the same hyphenation functionality as OO. Info on LGPL use by Apache software: http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/Using_20LGPL_27d_20code http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/LicenceIssues Now, can we please get rid of all hyphenation patterns in FOP? Please, please. Just joking, but I'd feel better. Jeremias Maerki