Introduction

This is the central place for hyphenation patterns in T_EX. They are all bundled in a single package called hyph-utf8.

• tex-hyphen mailing list
• tex-hyphen source repository
• language directory on CTAN

For pattern authors

If you are a pattern author and wish to update your patterns, please contact the hyph-utf8 package maintainers through the tex-hyphen mailing list .

Documentation

Algorithm

• Frank Liang’s thesis
• Hyphenation algorithm (article on Wikipedia)

Papers

• Documentation (needs improvement)
• Documentation for the Lua(La)T_EX part of the package
• TUG 2008 paper
• TUG 2016 paper
• The latest public hyphenation exception log from TUGboat, volume 36 (2015), no. 1

Slides

• T_EX hyphenation applied to HTML (Mathias Nater, BachoT_EX 2010)

Related packages

• Babel (pdf; 624KB) – for pdfT_EX and other 8-bit T_EX engines
• Polyglossia (pdf: 133KB) – for XƎT_EX and LuaT_EX

Links

Collaboration

• Mozilla
• FOP XML Hyphenation patterns (Simon Pepping)
• T_EX-Hyphen-Pattern (Perl implementation on CPAN (Roland von Ipenburg)
• Hyphenator.js (Client-side implementation of hyphenation in HTML documents) (Mathias Nater)

OpenOffice.org

• Test T_EX/OpenOffice hyphenation algorithm online (based on hunspell)
• Using T_EX hyphenation patterns in OpenOffice.org (explains how to properly convert T_EX patterns into OpenOffice-friendly form)

Other external links

• Hunspell (library)
• Open Office language extensions
• text-hyphen (rubyforge); (source code repository)
• T_EX Hyphenator in Java
• Knuth-Liang Hyphenation for Haskell
• Indic languages:
  • git repository
  • Santhosh Thottingal’s blogs:
    • Hyphenation of Indian Languages and Openoffice
    • Hyphenation of Indian Languages in Webpages
    • New Hyphenation Pattern Extensions for OpenOffice.org
    • Inkscape hyphenation extension
• An article about the soft hyphen
• T_EX line breaking algorithm in JavaScript

Languages

The list of supported languages is in the table below. Note that German and Spanish have additional documentation in a separate file.

(if patterns for any other language exist and are missing below please let us know)

This list is very incomplete; the full list of supported languages will be displayed when Mojca lets me merge the pull request -- Arthur.

	name, synonyms	code (link to file)	(left, right)- hyphenmin	8-bit encoding	licence	authors
German, traditional spelling	german, traditional spelling	de-1901	(2, 2)	T2M	MIT, LPPL
		hsb	(1, 1)	L4	custom
		cu	(2, 2)	L4	MIT
Liturgical Latin	liturgical latin	la-x-liturgic	(1, 2)	T2X	MIT	Claudio Beccari
Bulgarian	bulgarian	bg	(2, 2)	L4	LPPL, MIT	Georgi Boshnakov
German, reformed spelling	german, reformed spelling	de-1996	(2, 1)	T2M	MIT, LPPL
German, Swiss spelling	german, swiss spelling	de-ch-1901	(2, 3)	T2M	MIT, LPPL
		ru	(2, 2)	QX	custom
		cs	(1, 2)	T2M	custom
French	french	fr	(1, 2)	QX	MIT
Ancient Greek	ancient greek	grc	(2, 3)	T2M	LPPL
		zh-latn-pinyin	(1, 2)	T2X	custom
Latin	latin	la	(1, 1)	T2X	MIT, LPPL