Better Hyphenation

[MGlitch]

Originally Posted by Deobulakenyo

This what i have on my kobopatch.yaml

## ADDITIONAL FILES ##
# Uncomment the following to add additional files to the tgz (like init scripts or hyphen dicts)
# The files will be root-owned, and world readable, writable, and executable (0777)
# files:
#   src/whatever.txt: usr/local/Kobo/whatever.txt
#   src/whateverToPutInMultiplePlaces.txt:
#     - usr/local/Kobo/location1.txt
#     - usr/local/Kobo/location2.txt

Do i have to put the dictionary in the src folder of the patch files and type it's directory like:

files:
src/kobofiles/custom-dict/dicthtml-es-en.zip


or the dictionary could be anywhere in my PC, i just have to indicate its directory?

Thank you

You have to use the full path from the drive (as Jon has done) to wherever you store the hyphen dictionary. This will vary from user to user as you can store the file wherever you’d like to.

The second bit has to be as Jon wrote it, since that’s the only place your Kobo will look for the hyphen dictionary.

[Deobulakenyo]

Originally Posted by MGlitch

You have to use the full path from the drive (as Jon has done) to wherever you store the hyphen dictionary. This will vary from user to user as you can store the file wherever you’d like to.

The second bit has to be as Jon wrote it, since that’s the only place your Kobo will look for the hyphen dictionary.

I think i got it now.

second bit is where the patcher will copy the actual dictionary to the device.

Thank you very much

[Lykke]

Here's a Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål hyphenation dictionary. Just unzip the KoboRoot.tgz to the .kobo folder.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by Deobulakenyo

Do i have to put the dictionary in the src folder of the patch files and type it's directory like:

files:
src/kobofiles/custom-dict/dicthtml-es-en.zip


or the dictionary could be anywhere in my PC, i just have to indicate its directory?

Are you, perhaps, confusing 2 different types of dictionary?

Hyphenation dictionaries are buried deep in the firmware, so copying to your Kobo is most easily done using kobopatch's files: feature. Especially because every firmware update will overwrite your custom hyphenation dictionary if it's for one of the languages Kobo include in the firmware (English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Netherlands, Portuguese, Turkish)

However, your example above seems to be a custom Spanish-English translation dictionary. All word look-up dictionaries are easily accessible in the .kobo/custom-dict/ subdirectory on your Kobo. You can easily copy to this location via drag-drop from your local drive whilst you are USB-connected. Furthermore, any dicthtml-*.zip files you store here should not be affected by a firmware upgrade (or sync to Kobo servers) because Kobo are only interested in the default dictionaries stored in the .kobo/dict/ subdirectory. I'm not saying you mustn't use kobopatch's files: feature to copy this type of dictionary, just that there isn't much to be gained from it.

[Deobulakenyo]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I don't think those dictionaries will work. Can you find one for LibreOffice or OpenOffice?

Is there a way to uninstall a hyphenation dictionary just in case it does something unfavorably?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Deobulakenyo

Is there a way to uninstall a hyphenation dictionary just in case it does something unfavorably?

Reinstall the firmware or the patched firmware.

Nobody has reported anything wonky with any of the Hyphenation dictionaries. I've been using the English dictionary with no problems.

[MGlitch]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Reinstall the firmware or the patched firmware.

Nobody has reported anything wonky with any of the Hyphenation dictionaries. I've been using the English dictionary with no problems.

Just adding that if you opt to use the patches to install the dictionary you will of course need to remove that line from your yaml overdrive and regenerate a patch file.

[rtiangha]

How does one update these files? Is it just a matter of taking the Open/LibraOffice hyphenation dictionaries and combining them with the Adobe and/or Kobo ones?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by rtiangha

How does one update these files? Is it just a matter of taking the Open/LibraOffice hyphenation dictionaries and combining them with the Adobe ones?

In the case of the English version, it's not a matter of which is newer. It's a matter of settings.

The Adobe hyphenation dictionary has the following lines.

LEFTHYPHENMIN 5
RIGHTHYPHENMIN 5

Mine has

LEFTHYPHENMIN 2
RIGHTHYPHENMIN 2
COMPOUNDLEFTHYPHENMIN 2
COMPOUNDRIGHTHYPHENMIN 2

So what's going on is that you need much longer words with Adobe's dictionary then you do with mine. So you get less hyphens and more gaps.

[rtiangha]

I just ask because there are a bunch of entries in the LibreOffice en dictionary that don't appear in these ones and I wonder if adding them in would make things better. That said, I have no idea how these patterns work.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by rtiangha

I just ask because there are a bunch of entries in the LibreOffice en dictionary that don't appear in these ones and I wonder if adding them in would make things better. That said, I have no idea how these patterns work.

The difference is the one you linked has 23 entries that the existing one doesn't have. I can add them in and make a new install file if you want to test it.

[rtiangha]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The difference is the one you linked has 23 entries that the existing one doesn't have. I can add them in and make a new install file if you want to test it.

Sure, why not? Thanks.

There's also the max version (open as a txt file) from the TEX project that has some extra patterns too that claims it's "a set that is believed to find all admissible hyphenation points". I've attached a hyph.dic generated version.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by rtiangha

Sure, why not? Thanks.

There's also the max version (open as a txt file) from the TEX project that has some extra patterns too that claims it's "a set that is believed to find all admissible hyphenation points".

I'll do some beta US hyphenation dictionaries to test. I'll do the new one with all three combined and just the Tex Max version and we can see how it goes.

[rtiangha]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I'll do some beta US hyphenation dictionaries to test. I'll do the new one with all three combined and just the Tex Max version and we can see how it goes.

Cool; I edited my post with an attachment generating the max tex version of the hyphen dictionary using the Hunspell perl script: not sure what it changed but the file sizes are different.

Edit: Apparently it needs to be pre-proccessed first which is what that script handles.

[JSWolf]

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