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Hyphenation project involves creating hyphenation rule dictionaries for Indian | Hyphenation project involves creating hyphenation rule dictionaries for Indian | ||
languages for use in OpenOffice. This feature is currently not directly | languages for use in OpenOffice. To elaborate, hyphenation involves deciding rules which dictate in what manner a word is to be broken and appended with a hyphen (-) at the end of the line. There are algorithms to be written in order to make this happen in an efficient manner so that the text is more readable. This feature is currently not directly available in OO for Indian Languages. Therefore SMC has started this project. | ||
So there is an SMC (Swatanthra Malayalam Computing) Community as well as a | So there is an SMC (Swatanthra Malayalam Computing) Community as well as a | ||
hyphenation project community inside it. This can be considered a | hyphenation project community inside it. This can be considered a representative of Free Software Project Communities. Like most communities, the SMC | ||
community. | community. | ||
- Consists of volunteer developers | - Consists of volunteer developers | ||