hastejkeeee/hyphenation

Indian Language hyphenation module written in Python

hyphenation - A Python based hyphenation module based hyphenator module from Wilbert Berendsen

A Python hyphenation module.This module was originally written by Wilbert Berendsen and original module is avaialble at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/hyphenator/0.5.1. This module is later modified by Santhosh Thottingal to include indic hyphenation pattern and a hyphenation function which works by taking text input and language and hyphenation symbol(optional) as shown in below examples. If you want it to work with other language you need to place the proper rules under src/hyphenator/rules folder before compiling it.

PS: This module is same as hyphenator module but this includes Indian Language hyphenation patterns some modifications to choose hyphenation patterns automatically by using ISO language codes

How to Install?

1. Clone the source code from Gitorious

   git://gitorious.org/hyphenator/hyphenator.git

2. Build and install using following command

   sudo python setup.py install

3. There is an alternative way to do this use following command

   sudo pip install hyphenation

How to use?

Simple usage of the module is shown below. from hyphenation import Hyphenator h = Hyphenator() h.hyphenate(text,language)

If you want to change hyphenation symbol used then you can do that by specifying 3rd argument from hyphenation import Hyphenator h = Hyphenator() h.hyphenate(text,language,hyphen='-')

By default module will use soft hyphen (\u00AD)