On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:01:37 -0400 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> > I just tried out hyphenation with LibreOffice, and it created the > line break for "understanding" as "un- derstanding", in which case > one would say un- is indeed the first syllable, but for reading and > typographic purposes you don't want it hyphenated that way. > > Greg > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net The creator of TeX went into this problem in great detail. It uses an hyphenation algorithm as developed by Frank Liang. There are also extensive exception dictionaries for many different languages. If there is interest the developers could look at Appendix H in "The TeXBook." TeX by design avoids hyphenation like: wee-knights and the-rapist by using those extensive exception dictionaries. I only set up my Texlive installation for U.S. English. But if there is interest I can do a reinstall of other languages and examine those files. Also if there is interest I can inquire on comp.text.tex (or a developer can.) There are some real experts on that newsgroup. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Police Procedural and Expose: "Death Wore Black" "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
