Comment 4 for bug 171140

TeX Live offers hyphenation patters which could be used. Please see ..../texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/* from the latest TeX Live distribution and read also the licences that apply.

LibreOffice (OpenOffice) has also code for hyphenation which uses for most languages the same hyphenation patterns. It also uses the same file format. See licences and files of openoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us or libreoffice.org-hyphenation-en-us et al. Please see /usr/share/hyphen/*

Best would be to detect which is installed and reuse those files. Please also find out which files have priority as some have newer versions. This van differ per language between TeX Live and LibreOffice (OpenOffice).

It is also possible (for Windows e.g.) to ship the hyphenations patterns in Inkscape. Please comment the original authors of teh hyphenations files to subscribe to their broadcasts/RSS/mailing list on new releases.

Implementation can be done with also UTF-8 soft hyphens. If this is to be done by a library such as Pango or Cairo, please file a request there and provide additional information from this bug. Can someone please give some advise on this?

Inkscape should also provide an easy way to enable and disable hyphenation for text objects.