Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 37207
Allow only one character before linebreak for hyphenation
Last modified: 2010-02-24 19:44:56 UTC
In Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids the minimum valid number for "Characters before line break" is 2. But some languagues allow just 1 character before line breakt (like "O-fen" in new German orthography). So the minimum valid number should be 1 in resprect to those language rules. (The default should be left as is - 2 is ok).
IMHO this should be wontfix by itself, as it is one of the most useless rules in the new orthography... but reason for wontfix is that it would blow up the number of required hyphenation patterns with high risk of introducing bad hyphenation as regression for a feature that nobody with a sane mind would use. You can always add a conditional break/soft hyphen (or add a corresponding entry to your user dictionary) when a linebreak after one single letter is really needed. Wontfix because of too high risk of breaking things/too much effort to get it right for very little gain.
closing issue.
After some terrible hyphenations and some research I've realised that OOo could not hyphenate after only one charakter because the settings doesn't allow entering "1". Now I've found this issue. It's very frustrating to go through a document and do all neccessary hyphenations manually. My vote for this issue, although it's "wontfix" - hoping, some others will vote for it, too.