[reportlab-users] ANN: wordaxe-0.2.6 released

[Dirk Holtwick]

henning.vonbargen at arcor.de schrieb:

> This is not quite true, cause there is that funny 

> "non-standard hyphenation".

> Adding SHY characters and hiding them where not needed is not

> sufficient for these cases.

> Fortunately, for the German language, these non-standard cases

> disappeared with the "Rechtschreibreform", but imagine the compound

> word "Schiffahrt" in the old days. The correct hyphenation was

> "Schiff-fahrt" (one of the 'f's appearing only if the word is wrapped).

> Such non-standard-cases still exist in other languages

> (i.e. english: "eighteen" becomes "eight-teen" when wrapped).


I see. So it could still be a possible approach to pass text fragments 
as tuples like:

	[("Schifffahrt", ""), ("Schiff-", "fahrt")]

to a future paragraph implementation and let it choose which one fits 
best. Thanks for explaining.

Dirk