On 04/09/2018 06:46 AM, Mauro Trevisan wrote: > Hi, I would like to ask you if there are some documentation on the > hyphenation algorithm, particularly on the non-standard hyphenation and -- > mainly -- on the NEXTLEVEL keyword.
a) I haven't looked at the code; b) This is from memory, based on material back when OOo 2.x was in development; As such, this might not reflect current practice, if not outright wrong. There are two hyphenation algorithms in OOo. One of them was created by Lázló Németh. (Hoping I have the correct diacritic marks.) The other one was a slightly modified form of the hyphenation program used by TeX. The Tex derived hyphenation program is for "normal languages", where everything is regular, and compounded words can be easily parsed and broken apart, without losing meaning. The program Lázló wrote is for non-normal languages. These are languages that use a number of suffixes, prefixes, intefixes, and other things, that more or less ensure that breaking the word can, and usually will alter the meaning of the word, if not the sentence. It is not uncommon that breaking one of these words in the wrong place, will change the meaning of the entire paragraph. Hungarian is the best known European language, with this type of behaviour. His program also works for languages in which words can be compounded upon words, to create new words. Break these words in the wrong place, and one can easily overlook the misplaced hyphen. Even breaking them in the right place can result in the hyphen being overlooked. IIRC, Lázló wrote at least one paper, and did one or two presentations on hyphenation in OOo. jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
