Inkscape Hyphenation Extension

1. How to install.? Download the extension from https://github.com/santhoshtr/inkscape-hyphenation/raw/master/inkscape-hyphenation.zip . In GNU/Linux machines, extract the zip file and copy to /usr/share/inkscape/extensions folder. In Windows , extract to [inkscape installation directory]\extensions folder.
   After this close and reopen inkscape. You will see a menu named Hyphenate in Effects->Text menu.

2. How to use? In the document, add a text field, enter text in any indian language. Select the text and apply hyphenation by Effects->Text->Hyphenate. Then change the alignment of text to justify. You will see the text get hyphenated and occupying maximum possible space in the text field

3. How to report a problem? Mail to santhosh dot thottingal at gmail dot com

4. What are all the supported Languages? English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Oriya, Bengali, Panjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Assamese

5. What is the license of this extension? This extension is licensed under MIT license.

6. What is hyphenation and where can I get more information about that?

   • http://thottingal.in/blog/2009/10/03/inkscape-hyphenation-extension/
   • http://thottingal.in/blog/2008/12/16/hyphenation-of-indian-languages-in-webpages/
   • http://smc.org.in/silpa/Hyphenate