Bug 155841 - No hyphenation patterns available for Hebrew
Summary: No hyphenation patterns available for Hebrew
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Linguistic (show other bugs)
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Blocks: Hebrew Hyphenation
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Reported: 2023-06-14 19:18 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2025-11-28 16:01 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2023-06-14 19:18:10 UTC
I write Hebrew, and I want auto-hyphenation. But - LO says it doesn't have hyphenation patterns of Hebrew / for HE-IL; and the TDF wiki language resources page doesn't show such patterns anyway.

They need to exist...
Comment 1 Eyal Rozenberg 2023-11-13 21:47:15 UTC
Well, it seems LaTeX distributions don't have hyphenation patterns for Hebrew.

https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/85500/5640

So now the question becomes: Can we generate them somehow?
Comment 2 Caolán McNamara 2023-11-14 21:08:21 UTC
For what it is worth, the libhyphen format is somewhat described at https://github.com/hunspell/hyphen/blob/master/README.hyphen (and the other READMEs beside it for more complicated things). Patterns to match text against, with odd numbers as potential hyphenation points and even numbers as not-to-hyphen points IIRC.

If there are hyphens used in, e.g. newspapers. is there any known style guide for hyphenation they are following?
Comment 3 Eyal Rozenberg 2023-11-14 22:16:55 UTC
(In reply to Caolán McNamara from comment #2)
> If there are hyphens used in, e.g. newspapers. is there any known style
> guide for hyphenation they are following?

I plan on trying to get in touch with some newspapers to see if I can figure this one out.

But I do need to clarify that other than in media that is tall and narrow-column, hyphenation is possible but uncommon.
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2025-11-27 11:30:16 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-11-28 16:01:25 UTC
I haven't pursued this so far, and I don't know that anyone else has... so, no change by:

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: d2def868cb3ac5a7e538a911e83d7d907a2ec794
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US