[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Soft hyphens

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:09:17 -0500

Yes. That is what Bert said in a post that was rejected for some reason.

John B.

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:02:33AM -0700, John Gardner wrote:
> I'm a bit confused.  Is the soft hyphen intended to be an author option for
> over-riding the automatic hyphenation?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bert Frees
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 9:53 AM
> To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Soft hyphens
> 
> Yes. I tested it and it works together with the main hyphenation 
> algorithm very well.
> 
> 
> On 12/08/2010 18:41, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > 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
> >>      
> >    
> 
> For a description of the software and to download it go to
> http://www.jjb-software.com
> 
> For a description of the software and to download it go to
> http://www.jjb-software.com

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