Hyphenation of long words

[richmond62]

it's very close to a good hyphen

Well, as we know, all good programmers go to "Hyphen"

while bad programmers have to make a dash for it

[dunbarx]

Max.

Am i misunderstanding how to use your function? I get massively truncated lines with any sort of text, and hyphens in all the wrong places.

Craig

[dunbarx]

Richmond.



Craig

[bogs]

Don't sweat it Richmond, I appreciated it

[MaxV]

Max.

Am i misunderstanding how to use your function? I get massively truncated lines with any sort of text, and hyphens in all the wrong places.

Craig

If you want max 80 chars per line into a field:

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put field "myLongText" into temp
put  hypnen( temp, 80) into field "myLongText"

In Italian works quite good, I have just to fix with punctuation marks:

[dunbarx]

Ah, I see what happened. i misunderstood what "tSize" meant. It means the length of a line.

Craig

[[-hh]]

Hyphenation is a non-trivial optimization problem. Knuth did a lot in that field for TeX.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphenation_algorithm

Here a linguistic approach based on that and hunspell (link from the page above).
http://www.ushuaia.pl/hyphen/?ln=en

[theotherbassist]

Hypnen! Sounds like great ambient prog-disco.

I like the simplicity of it. Maybe a few more rules could even tighten things up a bit more on average... does anyone know the actual Knuth–Liang hyphenation algorithm? I can't seem to find the nuts and bolts of it--only a bunch of talk about it.

[[-hh]]

... does anyone know the actual Knuth–Liang hyphenation algorithm?

Here's Liang's thesis as PDF
http://www.tug.org/docs/liang/

Beneath my link above (hunspell) there is also a brilliant JavaScript implementation based on that:
https://github.com/mnater/Hyphenator

I implemented it already (via a browser widget for english, french, german, italian and spanish). Works fine.

[theotherbassist]

Thanks!