On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 17:50, 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! > > 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?
Its based on the OO.org system. You might get better results using manual hyphenation (ie, fully automatic off and then select a text frame, adjust the text alignment you wish to have and then select Hyphenation > Hyphenate Text from the Extras menu.) Example file is at: http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/documentation/samples/hyphen.scd.gz Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040412/71aaf4d6/attachment.pgp
