Hyphenation
Submitted by Morten Welinder
Assigned to Behdad Esfahbod
Link to original bug (#147659)
Description
Pango breaks lines so it should do hyphenation when requested. And it should do it right, i.e., not simply fill up one line at a time, but look at the whole paragraph. There is an i18n issue here: languages that form compound words by juxtaposition have long words making good hyphenation more important.
TeX is 20+ years old in it current form. We should not aim lower than what TeX can do. One extension to what TeX does would be to consider that some words have many valid hyphenation points, but some are more desireable than others. Compound words, for example, are better hyphenated at the compounding boundaries than within components.
Don't forget the fun stuff, such as words that change spelling when hyphenated!