Support for Malayalam (ml) Language - Hyphenation
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Description
This is to request the Malayalam language hyphenation support in Typst.
"Malayalam is one of the main languages spoken (by 40 million people) in South India, with a rich cultural and literary history. It is one of the oldest languages in India with classical language status."
Issue
Malayalam text output by Typst has too much spacing between some words.
Sample in Typst
Sample Text in Latex with Proper hyphenation and justification
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by inspecting the referenced hyph_ml_IN.dic rules and the repository's existing hyphenation language data. Use the Typst sample and LaTeX comparison as behavioral references; done means Malayalam text no longer exhibits the reported excessive spacing under justification.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- tex
- Domain
- internationalization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100