[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Use of the lou_hyphenate function
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 11:06:58 -0500
The lou_hyphenate function is tricky, as is hyphenation in general. For
an example of its use look at the hyphenate function in the liblouisxml
module transcriber.c.
John
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 04:26:43PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> I have tried to add support for the lou_hyphenate function into my java
> bindings, but I seem to only get the value 0 returned (IE. its failing
> to complete). Unfortunately I don't know why it fails to complete. I am
> using the en-us-g2.ctb translation table as I understand that the
> en-GB-g2.ctb table isn't so well developed. I also tried passing in the
> following string for translation table to see if specifying a
> hyphenation dictionary would help "en-us-g2.ctb,hyph_en_US.dic" but
> still no success.
>
> I guess first thing to check is if I am using a suitable table. If not
> what would be a correct value for trantab?
>
> Also for those java developers what would be your preferred return type,
> I plan to have it return a byte array with values as given by
> lou_hyphenate in the hyphens parameter. An alternative I can think of is
> to return a int array with each value being the index of a 1 value in
> the hyphens parameter of lou_hyphenate (IE. by iterating over the return
> value you would get each index of the beginning of a syllable, which
> could be used on the string you passed into the method).
>
> Michael Whapples
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