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Development => Languages, Translation and Localisation => Topic started by: temiza on June 05, 2024, 09:54:01 AM

Title: I want to create a hyphenation dictionary, where do I start?
Post by: temiza on June 05, 2024, 09:54:01 AM
I'm using Scribus to format a book in Maltese. There is no hyphenation dictionary for this language. Are there guides to creating a hyphenation dictionary? What is the format used? I would appreciate any pointers.

thanks!
Title: Re: I want to create a hyphenation dictionary, where do I start?
Post by: MrB on June 05, 2024, 10:05:13 PM
Scribus uses the same format that libreoffice etc uses. We include a couple by default, but otherwise rely on a few options, sourced from the system via packages, via a LibreOffice etc install, or people can use the Scribus Resource Manager window to download them. Most of them are sourced via https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/plain/. There's nothing there with the "mt" language either. It is not obvious that libreoffice has something elsewhere either. There may be a Maltese community that does this sort of work though such an an educational institution, ministry etc.
I suppose its not that hard to create the file but I don't know the formatting myself.
Title: Re: I want to create a hyphenation dictionary, where do I start?
Post by: a.l.e on June 06, 2024, 10:07:25 AM
after mrb's post i had a short look into what are hyphenation dictionaries...


so what you can do now?

i guess that the best is to get in touch with the libreoffice community or maintainer of a language that is close to maltese and see with them what you need to do for creating the language files for your language.

this having been said, i don't see any language pack for the european smaller / minority languages so it might be something that is hard to create / maintain...