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Text-Hyphen-0.11
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/ Text::Hyphen

NAME

Text::Hyphen - determine positions for hyphens inside words

VERSION

Version 0.1

SYNOPSIS

This module implements Knuth-Liang algorithm to find positions inside words where it is possible to insert hyphens to break a line.

    use Text::Hyphen;

    my $hyphenator = new Text::Hyphen;

    print $hyphenator->hyphenate('representation');
    # prints rep-re-sen-ta-tion

EXPORT

This version does not export anything and uses OOP interface. This will probably change.

XXX employ a singleton to provide functional interface

FUNCTIONS

new(%options)

Creates the hyphenator object.

You can pass several options:

min_word

Minimum length of word to be hyphenated. Shorter words are returned right away. Defaults to 5 for English.

min_prefix

Minimal prefix to leave without any hyphens. Defaults to 2 for English.

min_suffix

Minimal suffix to leave wothout any hyphens. Defaults to 2 for English.

hyphenate($word, [$delim])

Hyphenates the $word by inserting $delim into hyphen positions. $delim defaults to dash ("-").

AUTHOR

Alex Kapranoff, <kappa at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-text-hyphen at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Text-Hyphen. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Text::Hyphen

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Donald Knuth and Frank Liang for the algorithm.

Alexander Lebedev for all his valuable work on russian ispell dictionaries and russian hyphenation patterns. See his archive at ftp://scon155.phys.msu.ru/pub/russian/.

Mark-Jason Dominus and Jan Pazdziora for Text::Hyphenate and TeX::Hyphenate modules on CPAN both of which are hopefully obsoleted by Text::Hyphen :)

Ned Batchelder for his public domain Python implementation of Knuth-Liang algorithm available at http://nedbatchelder.com/code/modules/hyphenate.html.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2008 Alex Kapranoff.

This program is released under the following license: BSD.