Hyphenation support for other languages than english

[ildar]

I'd like to re-post the 2015 yr FR, originally discussed here: https://code.google.com/p/and-bible/issues/detail?id=184 The reason for it is that no-hyphen text is very inconvenient for reading, especially on small screens or/and big fonts. I personally still use a book reader (FBReader) for bulk reading, not And-Bible.

[tuomas2]

Could be implemented on JS side: https://github.com/mnater/Hyphenopoly

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/hyphens

[ildar]

It seems WebKit does hyphenations: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/hyphens Can you turn them on?

[tuomas2]

Yes! That's my plan.

[tuomas2]

Unfortunately, with WebView, this is not working for any other languages but english. But I'll enable it anyway.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/hyphens#Browser_compatibility

[tuomas2]

Implemented in f567a33d4b0d21ee36c9fb5ec98654c903cfd2ef

[tuomas2]

I'll re-open this, because I could consider later adding support for other languages via Hyphenopoly.

[ildar]

Unfortunately, with WebView, this is not working for any other languages but english.

Hi Tuomas! Thanks. Could you please give a reference why other languages do not work? May it be that just WebKit input document misses language codes?

[tuomas2]

Could you please give a reference why other languages do not work? May it be that just WebKit input document misses language codes?

Here's the reference. See the "Android Webview" column. Language code is in place.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/hyphens#Browser_compatibility

Or actually it says compability is 'unknown'. But it appears that it is not working so I assume that it is not supported.

[ildar]

The column is full with ?s. So "Enemy Unknown" )) Testing the 274 beta, very satisfied with English text. Now please confirm that in 274 for Russian Bibles (like RST):

1. Language code is set correctly in HTML;
2. hyphens: auto. Thanks!

[tuomas2]

@ildar Please take a look at the diff: https://github.com/AndBible/and-bible/commit/f567a33d4b0d21ee36c9fb5ec98654c903cfd2ef?w=1

As you see, hyphens is always enabled (auto) and language code is set according to the document language (it is two letter code, like 'en', 'fi', 'ru' etc.).

[tuomas2]

This needs to be made configurable (to options menu right-rop corner)

[ildar]

Thanks, agreed

[zdposter]

What is status of this? I tried to use it at Slovak Bible and I see no hyphenation even Slovak is supported by Hyphenopoly. In English/NASB I see hyphenation.

[tuomas2]

Hyphenopoly would be option, if it is implemented similar way as RefParser, i.e. js files are bundled in a add-on module file. What we are using, is native hyphenation. Chrome / WebView do not seem to implement this still. (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/hyphens#Browser_compatibility)