[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Soft hyphens

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:41:43 -0500

Are you suggesting modification of the hyphenatex function inn the 
transcriber.c module? The main hyphenation algorithm is in liblouis, as 
you probably know.

John

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 05:00:45PM +0200, Bert Frees wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have written some code to make liblouisxml handle "soft hyphens". I 
> thought this may be a good idea. Soft hyphens (unicode characters 
> U+00AD) indicate were a word can be split, but they are only reproduced 
> in Braille (as a regular hyphen) if they appear at the end of a line 
> where a word is effectively split. This hyphenation procedure would be 
> an addition/extension to the TeX hyphenation algorithm currently in place.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> Bert
> For a description of the software and to download it go to
> http://www.jjb-software.com

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