[scribus] How to hyphenate?

[John Culleton]

On Sunday 04 May 2008 06:33:45 am a.l.e wrote:
> ciao john
>
> > I did the frame bit and nothing happened. But when I changed the
> > preferences for hyphenation I found that I did not have any
> > language choices, which leads me to believe that there is a
> > hyphen file missing. I have Open Office installed.  Is that the
> > source for the hyphen file or should I download one elsewhere?
> > What would be the file name for (American) English?
> >
> > Thanks as always for your guidance.
>
> there is a bug report for it, with workaround:
>
> http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=6941
>
> ... it should work again after restarting scribus.
>
> it's already solved in  svn.
>
> have a nice day
>
> a.l.e
>


First I had to create /usr/share/scribus
Then I executed:

ln -s /usr/lib/scribus/dicts/ /usr/share/scribus/dicts

Then I fired up a new instance of Scribus.

Still no hyphenation dictionary. 

It is mentioned that the svn has cured the problem. Is this the 
1.3.3.x svn or the 1.3.5 svn?
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