Bug 142592

Summary:	Identify syllables in compound words based on dictionaries
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Vollbracht <avollbracht>
Component:	Linguistic	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	jbfaure, nemeth, sophi
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Bug Blocks:	120883

Description Vollbracht 2021-06-01 00:51:32 UTC

Is there any chance to identify compound words based on foreign words in German to help for correct hyphenation? Example: "primordial" is not based on "Mord" but on "order", so "prim-ordial" is correct, but "pri-mordial" is not.

Comment 1 László Németh 2023-10-04 11:36:28 UTC

There is a plan to use Hunspell spell checker and morphological analyzer combined with the recent libhyphen, but only for the compound words recognized by the heuristics of Hunspell.

Foreign words are often not recognizable by the orthography as compounds. For example, because of this, pro-gram or prog-ram are both correct hyphenations in Hungarian, or primordiale is hyphenated as pri-mordiale in Italian:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/primordiale#Italian

The only solution to extend the hyphenation dictionary, at least custom dictionary of LibreOffice:

https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/lo/text/swriter/guide/hyphen_prevent.html