NAME

       PS_hyphenate — Hyphenates a word

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pslib.h>

       int PS_hyphenate(PSDoc *psdoc, const char *text, char **hyphens)

DESCRIPTION

       Hyphenates  the  passed  word.  text should not contain any non alpha characters. Possible
       positions for breaks are returned in hyphens.

       This function requires the locale category LC_CTYPE to be set propperly. PS_boot() usually
       does it by using the enviroment variables.

       PS_hyphenate()  evaluates  the  value  'hyphenminchars'  and  the  parameter `hyphendict'.
       hyphendict must be set before calling this function.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns -1 in case of an error, and otherwise 0.

SEE ALSO

       PS_boot(3), PS_show_boxed(3), locale(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann <uwe@steinmann.cx>.

                                                                                  PS_HYPHENATE(3)