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Re: Hyphenation?


  • Subject: Re: Hyphenation?
  • From: Otto Rasanen <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 14:32:12 +0300

On Feb 2, 2004, at 20:56, Douglas Davidson wrote:
On Feb 2, 2004, at 2:19 AM, Izidor Jerebic wrote:

I think it is not documented, but AFAIK the Cocoa text system uses TeX-like hyphenation algorithm. With this algorithm one provides one set of hyphenation patterns per language. I have no idea how you can add a file with your own patterns...

That is correct. Unfortunately we have no mechanism at present for extending this.

Douglas Davidson

Since Apple does not offer a way of extending this, I have been thinking of writing my own implementation of the TeX hyphenation algorithm. Using it, I could at least create a version of TextEdit, which would allow users to choose the language for automatical hyphenation. Maybe other Cocoa programmers would like to use it too.

However, if Apple is going to enhance Cocoa's hyphenation feature in the near future, I would be better of spending my time doing something more useful. Is there any idea, if Apple is going to improve this feature, and if it is, when might this be?

Otto Rdsdnen
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