[Openstack-docs] Do we want hyphenation?

Andreas Jaeger aj at suse.com
Tue Jul 15 07:45:02 UTC 2014


On 07/14/2014 04:20 PM, Anne Gentle wrote:
> Hi all, 
> With this patch: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/106245/ we can get rid
> of the "SEVERE" hyphenation error sometimes reported by the maven
> plugin, tracked with this bug [1].
> 
> There are some possible consequences, though, that I wanted to bring to
> this list to make sure we've covered the bases.
> 
> Once we update the pom.xml files with this change, all para text will be
> hyphenated. It doesn't result in any real page count savings (I just
> tested with a few guides over 100 pages, and only saw a one-page count
> drop). It does get rid of the error. 
> 
> The hyphenation quality for English seems high enough to me.
> 
> The hyphenation algorithms for English are licensed just fine for our use. 
> 
> When you use the same pom.xml to build a guide that's in another
> languages, the hyphenation algorithms may not exist. I think that's
> probably fine. The hyphenation file that does exist may not be super
> well tested, so I'm not sure if the quality of the hyphenation will be
> great for other languages. Is that acceptable? 
> 
> Any other input or considerations?
> 
> Thanks,
> Anne
> 
> 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1273122

Now understanding the underlying issue, I'm fine giving it a try but
will not oppose keeping the status quo (so a +1).

Thanks,
Andreas
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