Text-Hyphen
Text::Hyphen module is the implementation of the famous Knuth-Liang
algorithm to hyphenate words in text. That means using this module you
can determine positions inside words where it is possible to insert
a hyphen to break a line of text.
The algorithm is thoroughly documented in Franklin Mark Liang's Ph.D. thesis
available on CTAN (e.g. http://www.tug.org/docs/liang/liang-thesis.pdf) and is used
in TeX. The interesting property of this algorithm is that it isn't
based on a set of rules but instead uses a sophisticatedly compressed dictionary of patterns.
The original Knuth patterns for English are in public domain and
included with this implementation.
The Text::Hyphen distribution does not have any dependencies and will
probably work on old perls. (XXX rephrase after cpantesters reports)
This is 0.1 version.
INSTALLATION
To install this module, run the following commands:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION
After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.
perldoc Text::Hyphen
You can also look for information at:
RT, CPAN's request tracker
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Text-Hyphen
AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation
http://annocpan.org/dist/Text-Hyphen
CPAN Ratings
http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Text-Hyphen
Search CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Hyphen
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2008 Alex Kapranoff
This program is released under the following license: bsd