[scribus] Hyphenation/justification settings
Bjørn-Helge Mevik
bhs2 at mevik.net
Sat Aug 1 17:40:19 CEST 2009
Pierre Marchand wrote:
> Vous (Bjørn-Helge Mevik) avez écrit :
>
>> Forgive me if this is impossible, or has been discussed and decided
>> upon -- I'm quite new to Scribus:
>>
>> Has it been considered to implement the TeX hyphenation and line
>> breaking algorithms in Scribus? Escpecially the hyphenation algorithm
>> is IMHO far superior to anything else I've seen. With hyphenation
>> patterns that are readily available, it is even able to hyphenate
>> Norwegian almost 100% correctly, even though Norwegian contains lots
>> of compound words and generally has quite different hyphenation rules
>> than English.
>
> Hyphenation as found in TeX has been made available through libhnj, which is
> used in a wide variety of packages, including Scribus.
Cool! Is this available in the stable branch (I have 1.3.3.12)? How
do I activate/use it? (I haven't found anything about this in the
interface or on scribus.net, but perhaps I haven't been looking hard
enough.)
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Bjørn-Helge Mevik
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