This Finnish hyphenation dictionary for the ALTLinux LibHnj library was converted in 2003-11-03 by Jarno Elonen from TeX hyphenation patterns in "fihyph.tex" as described at http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/hyphenator.html. Here are the acknowledgements from the original pattern file: First release January -86 by Kauko Saarinen, Computing Centre, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Completely rewritten January -88. The new patterns make much less mistakes with foreign and compound words. The article "Automatic Hyphenation of Finnish" by Professor Fred Karlsson is also referred 8th March -89 (vers. 2.2), some vowel triples by Fred Karlsson added. 9th January - 95: added \uccode and \lccode by Thomas Esser Patterns may be freely distributed Installation instructions: LINUX: 1) copy the dictionary either to a global dictionary directory (depends on your distribution) or to a user specific one (usually like ~/.openoffice/1.1.0/user/wordbook/) 2) add the following line to "dictionary.lst" (usually in the same directory with the dictionary): HYPH fi FI hyph_fi_FI 3) Start OOo, go to "Language Settings / Writing Aids / ALTLinux LibHnj Hyphenator / Edit / Language: Finnish" and make sure the check box under "Hyphenation" is checked. [4) make sure paragraph language is set to Finnish when you start writing] WINDOWS: 1) copy the dictionary to C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org1.1.0\share\dict\ooo 2) add the following line to "dictionary.lst" (in the same directory): HYPH fi FI hyph_fi_FI 3) Start OOo, go to "Language Settings / Writing Aids / ALTLinux LibHnj Hyphenator / Edit / Language: Finnish" and make sure the check box under "Hyphenation" is checked. [4) make sure paragraph language is set to Finnish when you start writing]