Which is the best approach for soft hyphen in for website?

[Amir Simantov]

Hi. I have stumbled upon this group while searching "sanskrit soft hyphen". I am building a website which has very long Sanskrit words. The site uses php and I think that I can add any technique for the soft hyphenating.

My questions:

1. Which technique/library/plugin which is out there (as open source code) you have found good for Sanskrit?
2. Does the technique you mention has any restriction on searching well the text?

Thanks.

[Mārcis Gasūns]

On Sunday, 26 October 2014 05:29:34 UTC+4, Amir Simantov wrote:

Hi. I have stumbled upon this group while searching "sanskrit soft hyphen". I am building a website which has very long Sanskrit words. The site uses php and I think that I can add any technique for the soft hyphenating.

Can you code php weel enough to build a library yourself?

 

My questions:

1. Which technique/library/plugin which is out there (as open source code) you have found good for Sanskrit?

None, let's develop some. I can show you what I've done in printed books.  Our .xls macro gives us such an output:

i12has2tha

i12hasthā2na

i1hāt2mati1kā

i1hāmu1t2ra2pha2labho12gavi1rā2ga

i1hār2tha

ī

īkā2ra

īkṣ

īkṣa1ṇa1

That can be split easily afterwards, based on similar TeX rules. Read more on https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ktm-rMjZnOGFdwN7u7gE1WzkhohPcPMQA3XrRSvn56o/edit (in Russian about Sanskrit hyphenation issues).

1. Does the technique you mention has any restriction on searching well the text?

No, search should work as expected.

 

Thanks.

[Amir Simantov]

Hi Mārcis,

Thanks for your quick reply. I did not get any notification about it in my email, so I just saw your answer now when checking on this issue.

I will learn the issue better for a future phase of a site of my given project and we can continue then. I have to learn some Russian in the meantime, spasiba :)

Anyway, I am using for now hyphenator.js which breaks words in places my customer (an academic researcher) still have to check.

Thanks again,

Amir