Re: [GSoC] Add hyphenation support

Hi Gabriela,

Thanks very much for interest in AbiWord. The hyphernation support
would need to employ some GPL compatible code to determine the break
point for word based on the language and adjust our line breaking code
accordingly.

At present we break lines by adding up the widths of each word. When
the width exceeds the width of the line, word that "steps-over" the
end is moved onto the next line.

With hyphernation support, we would keep the part of the word that
still fits on the previous line there and move the rest onto the
start of the next line.

All this code is in the src/text/xp/fb_LinerBreaker.cpp

We would also need to adjust our code in
src/text/fmt/xp/fb_Alignment.cpp to take advantage of the hyphernation
support and do a better job at justification.

Cheers

Martin

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Gabriela Botea
<gabriela.botea@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a 3rd year Computer Science student and I saw the project idea based on
> adding hyphenation support for AbiWord.
> I find this idea very interesting and I am really willing to understand and
> help implement this support for AbiWord, of course under helpful mentoring.
> I would like to get more suggestions or any helpful tips on how to do a very
> good application and discuss more about this and other support needed for
> AbiWord.
> I am looking forward to receiving any guide lines and hopefully getting to
> work with great people.
> Thank you.
>
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> Gabriela Botea
>
> Polytechnic University of Bucharest
> Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers
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Received on Wed Mar 30 03:09:24 2011