Re: [GSoC] Add hyphenation support

Hi Gabriela,

Please upload your proposal to the google site so that all the mentors
can read it and rank it.

Cheers

Martin

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Gabriela Botea <gabriela.botea@gmail.com> wrote:
> +CC: abiword-dev
>
> Hello Martin,
>
> Sorry for the late reply! Here's a draft of my application for "Hyphenation
> Support in AbiWord". I've followed your advice regarding the hunspell
> dictionaries that I can use. Please let me know what you think.
>
> Also, I noticed that there is no mentor assigned to this project. I was
> wondering if you were willing to mentor this project, or if there is another
> person assigned to it.
>
> I'm looking forward to receiving feedback from you (and from the
> dev-community). The document is public [1].
>
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fDDlTKw6VtXc6yihUJVECYrVRF7SI2epp8cQtgyn5nU/edit?hl=en_GB&authkey=CNvmvMcO
>
> Best regards,
>
> On 30 March 2011 04:08, Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gabriela,
>>
>> Thanks very much for interest in AbiWord. The hyphernation support
>> would need to employ some GPL compatible code to determine the break
>> point for word based on the language and adjust our line breaking code
>> accordingly.
>>
>> At present we break lines by adding up the widths of each word. When
>> the width exceeds the width of the line, word that "steps-over" the
>> end is moved onto the next line.
>>
>> With hyphernation support, we would keep the part of the word that
>> still fits on the previous line  there and move the rest onto the
>> start of the next line.
>>
>> All this code is in the src/text/xp/fb_LinerBreaker.cpp
>>
>> We would also need to adjust our code in
>> src/text/fmt/xp/fb_Alignment.cpp to take advantage of the hyphernation
>> support and do a better job at justification.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Gabriela Botea
>> <gabriela.botea@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am a 3rd year Computer Science student and I saw the project idea
>> > based on
>> > adding hyphenation support for AbiWord.
>> > I find this idea very interesting and I am really willing to understand
>> > and
>> > help implement this support for AbiWord, of course under helpful
>> > mentoring.
>> > I would like to get more suggestions or any helpful tips on how to do a
>> > very
>> > good application and discuss more about this and other support needed
>> > for
>> > AbiWord.
>> > I am looking forward to receiving any guide lines and hopefully getting
>> > to
>> > work with great people.
>> > Thank you.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Gabriela Botea
>> >
>> > Polytechnic University of Bucharest
>> > Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>
>
>
> --
> Gabriela Botea
>
> Polytechnic University of Bucharest
> Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers
>
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>
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Received on Wed Apr 6 03:48:39 2011