[sword-devel] Soft hyphens

[Cyrille]

It becomes a bit difficult for me to follow this post with all these
technical terms in another language :-) :-( But what I can tell you is
that I am very interested in a hyphenation dictionary. I have already
created a spelling dictionary for kikongo
<https://gitlab.com/lafricain79/kituba-dic>, and have created an
extension for libreoffice
<https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/kituba-kikongo-ya-leta-dictionary>
and a hunspell dictionary for Linux. This now allows us to enable spell
checking in kikongo/kituba. This is all the more interesting as Verbum
Bible is translating the Old Testament and the Roman Missal. My
intention is the same for lingala, once finished the module I will
create a dictionary. Moreover for the lingala case the hunspell .aff
file already exists!
Now for the hyphenation dictionary, I read about it and it seemed like a
tedious operation, so if you have a solution to offer me to take
advantage of already existing hyphenation words it would be great.
I open an issue about this on gitlab
<https://gitlab.com/lafricain79/LinVB/issues/11>.

Br Cyrille

Le 03/11/2017 à 12:37, David Haslam a écrit :
> I had similar thoughts as Michael outlined.
>
> This morning, I compiled an Excel workbook tabulating the Lingala words
> found to contain a soft hyphen.
>
> It has been attached to the issue in the GitLab repo.
>
> https://gitlab.com/lafricain79/LinVB/issues/10
>
> And - yes - it's not only incomplete as a dictionary, but it's also further
> evidence of inconsistency.
> The use of soft hyphens was entirely an ad hoc operation done to address
> contingencies.
>
> As a CrossWire volunteer, I don't consider this sort of activity to be
> outside our purview.
> We're here to assist other Bible Agencies too, just as we say in our
> website.
> Or, if you like, we can count it as "going the extra mile".
>
> And I'm sure that Fr Cyrille appreciates the spirit in which this service is
> provided.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
>
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