Re: [Inkscape-devel] Hyphenation in Inkscape

On 9/22/09, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote:

My take on hyphenation:

• It absolutely needs to be a core feature (because then we can add other

nice things like fit text to frame)

...we already have it :)

• We should use libhyphen instead of creating our own library, and use OO.o

hyphenation patterns that are installed on the system - in the same way we use Aspell. For Windows we can make them downloadable at install if they are big (though it will require some NSIS wizardry).

if someone can code that, it would be fantastic

• It could be a vector effect in theory, but in practice it shouldn't be

more complicated than a checkbox option in the text tool that defaults to "on"

not really a vector effect, but just an attribute of the flowRoot element which must go into the Inkscape-only branch of a switch entirely, as planned long ago, with an auto-updated svg:text equivalent in the other branch