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Support hyphenation #11

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propensive opened this issue Dec 27, 2022 · 2 comments
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Support hyphenation #11

propensive opened this issue Dec 27, 2022 · 2 comments
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A hyphenation algorithm would allow better rendering of natural language text in columns, though the implementation is likely to be nontrivial.
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propensive commented Dec 27, 2022 •
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Hyphenation could run as a separate step (and should possibly be implemented as a completely separate project) prior to insertion into a table, and would insert soft hyphens at various points within words, which would then be interpreted by Escritoire if #9 is implemented.

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The algorithm is explained reasonably well here.

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