[Scribus] French Hyphenation

Peter Linnell scribusdocs
Mon Apr 12 22:57:28 CEST 2004


Bonjour Louis,

On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 11:50, Louis Desjardins wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> First of all, I would like to add my voice to what LL wrote about the 
> team and the project. I cannot agree more!
> 
> That said, there is still some (lots of) work to be done to achieve a 
> better Scribus! But what a pleasure to work in these conditions! What 
> a spirit!

Thanks - it makes it fun to work on too :)
> 
> Would it be possible to have some information on the hyphenation 
> engine? I am currently trying to figure out the limitations of 
> Scribus in that area to get some improvement. Knowing how the program 
> hyphenates (algorithm, dictionary) would help. For instance, maybe it 
> will be sufficient to identify a few instances of words that don't 
> hyphenate properly (or not at all, as I have seen) to make an 
> adjustment that will have a powerfull effect on the hyphenation 
> results. So, on the development side, what would be helpful?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Louis

I have updated the hyphenation doc page, as well as updated the sample
doc to reflect the new features.

http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/documentation/hyphenator.html

Cheers,
Peter







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