- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:19:17 +0100
Also sprach Sander Tekelenburg:
> FWIW, my feeling is that it would be best if there'd be a defined format for
> hyphenation rules, and browsers would accept such description files as a
> plug-in. This would allow each language's specialist to write their rules,
> and share them, without putting that burden on browser authors. (Browsers
> could of course still be shipped with such rulesets.)
This format exists. It was pioneered by TeX and is now widely used by
other applications. Here is the OpenOffice repository:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries
You can plug these into Prince as per:
http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2006/p6/p6demo2.html
I agree that browsers should read these dictionaries. However, the
dictionaries don't have to ship with browsers -- they can be web
resources just like style sheets and images are.
-h&kon
H?kon Wium Lie CTO ??e??
howcome at opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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