VOIKKOHYPHENATE(1)

💖 VOIKKOHYPHENATE 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to voikkohyphenate(1) from the General Commands Manual section — yes she's section one, she's that girl. pull up a chair, we're hyphenating words today 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

voikkohyphenate — it's the test program for the Voikko hyphenator, and honestly? she slays 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

voikkohyphenate [options]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the vibe: voikkohyphenate is a test program for the hyphenator functionality inside libvoikko, which is the library of language tools. 🧚

she reads words from stdin — literally one word per line, no more no less — and then prints them to stdout in fully hyphenated form. that's it. that's the whole job. and she does it beautifully. no cap. 👑

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

• -sc — use c to separate syllables, bestie. by default - is what's used. and here's the important bit: if the separator gets set to any character other than -, then all original characters of the hyphenated word are printed. so don't be surprised, that's just how she works 💖
• min_hyphenated_word_length=n — set n as the "minimun" (yes the original page says "minimun", we love a typo queen 😭) length for words to hyphenate. short words simply don't get the treatment, periodt.
• no_ugly_hyphenation=n — ok this one is just... sitting there in the option list with no explanation attached. ngl the manpage gives us nothing extra for it on its own 🙈
• hyphenate_unknown_words=n — set the value of the specified boolean option. n can be either 0 (false) or 1 (true). that's the whole menu of values, no in-between, we're not doing maybe-energy here 💀

heads up: that "Set the value of the specified boolean option. n can be either 0 (false) or 1 (true)." description applies to both of the boolean options above, so no_ugly_hyphenation and hyphenate_unknown_words both take 0 or 1. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• voikkospell — for the common options shared across the different Voikko test tools. go say hi to her too 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

voikkohyphenate and this manual page were written by Harri Pitkänen (hatapitk@iki.fi). thank you for your service, legend 🌟

and that's the whole page, bestie! this one's dated 2010-03-06, from the Voikko crew — she's been serving hyphenation excellence since way back and she's still iconic for it. bye pookie, go hyphenate something 💖✨🎀