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[François Poulain <address@hidden>]

Hi,

I don't understand the relationship between TeXmacs and Aspell at
hyphenation point of view.

We use Aspell only for spell checking.

As far as hyphenation is concerned, it is done in
src/System/Language/, using LaTeX dictionaries. You may look at
language.hpp and (I guess) dramatically decrease the value of HYPH_STD
in order to make hyphenation more easy. But I don't think this will
suffice to make "compact" paragraphs (you probably have to tweak
inter-word spacing for this purpose).

My two cents.
François

Le Mon, 6 Jan 2014 16:16:37 -0800 (PST),
Szymon Brzostowski <address@hidden> a écrit :

> I love using Texmacs, but often I have troubles with typesetting
> things the way I want. Namely, Texmacs engine seems to be unwilling
> to hyphenate words as often as it could in order to make the
> paragraph look more compact (I like things this way; hyphenation
> doesn't bother me at all). In such situations, I usually try to force
> Texmacs to hyphenate by introducing the "no-break" commands in
> appropriate places. Sometimes this works. But I've noticed that
> Aspell used by Texmacs seems to not know about many places where the
> given words can be correctly hyphenated (unless these possible places
> are ignored by Texmacs itself, which I don't presume is the case).
> So, often the last resort is the usage of "-" to make Texmacs
> hyphenate, but this is a terrible solution (when there are changes of
> a style for example the "-" is still there but in a wrong place - not
> at the end of a line). Hence, I would like to propose two solutions
> for possible consideration by the Developers of Texmacs:
> 
> 1. Implementation of discretionary hyphens, commonly used in word
> processors, which would allow for easy manual hyphenation  (probably
> this is easy to do).
> 
> 2. Replacing Aspell by Hunspell which I think is MUCH better in
> hyphenating then Aspell (it is based on Tex algorithm for
> hyphenation; I use the page http://www.ushuaia.pl/hyphen/?ln=en,
> whose engine is Hunspell, to learn where to correctly hyphenate a
> given word). The homepage of Hunspell
> is http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/. Oh, and Hunspell uses the
> unicode character encoding.
> 
> Keep up the good work, and thank you for this great word processor,


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François Poulain <address@hidden>