libhyphen partitioner
Increased readability of ISO document formats and mobile web pages
The project develops a state-of-the-art line breaking method in LO/COOL Writer word processor and its portable libhyphen library, resulting in more readable documents and web pages. The new algorithm is the natural enhancement of the “smart” hyphenation of DTP software and office suites. In ISO ODT and DOCX documents, it minimizes the less readable hyphenation of compound words by preferring compound word boundaries within a custom word spacing range, i.e. without losing typographic quality. Limiting hyphenation only for splitting compound words, it can help to eliminate poor rags on mobile web, where the de facto standard is scrolling of the left-aligned text without hyphenation. This is a fundamental requirement for languages with an “unlimited” number of compound words, for example Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latvian, Norwegian and Swedish, but it can be useful for English, too, especially on very narrow screen sizes of mobile web.
- The project's own website: https://github.com/hunspell/hyphen
Run by Csevej Bt.
This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
