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voikkohyphenate(1)

voikkohyphenate1

Test program for voikko hyphenator

Usage

voikkohyphenate [options]

Overview

voikkohyphenate is a test program for hyphenator functionality in libvoikko, library of language tools. It reads words from stdin (one word on a line) and prints them stdout in fully hyphenated form.

Options

-sc

Use c to separate syllables. By default - is used. If separator is set to a character other than -, all original characters of the hyphenated word are printed.

min_hyphenated_word_length=n

Set n as the minimun length for words to hyphenate.

no_ugly_hyphenation=n
hyphenate_unknown_words=n

Set the value of the specified boolean option. n can be either 0 (false) or 1 (true).

History

  • Arch Linux 2026-11-01 to Debian 10 (Buster): the text shown here
  • Debian 9 (Stretch) to Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)
  • Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
  • Debian 4.0 (Etch)

-c until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -t until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -x until Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

Author

voikkohyphenate and this manual page were written by Harri Pitkänen ([email protected]).

From libvoikko 4.3.3-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.