[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 124236] EDITING: Cannot correct an incorrect hyphenation point

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124236

--- Comment #3 from Luke Kendall <luke.kendall at gmail.com> ---
I just rechecked my screenshot.

I'm happy enough to submit a feature request instead, but I hesitate because it
still looks like a bug to me.

My logic is that:
1. the dialog shows the hyphenation point selected.
2. There is a Remove button (not greyed out)
3. The help pages for the feature says the hyphenation point should be able to
be removed

Questions:

1. Is the issue that you cannot remove all hyphenation points?
   (If so, bug is that Remove button is not greyed out.)
2. Are the (greyed out - I'm unsure) Left and Right arrows intended to move the
hyphenation point?
   (If so, the bug seems that these buttons are greyed out.)


-- From here on is just a background note: TL;DR? --

Incidentally, even Knuth in his 1981 paper, Breaking Paragraphs into Lines
(http://www.eprg.org/G53DOC/pdfs/knuth-plass-breaking.pdf) states:
"The choice of proper hyphenation points is an important but difficult subject
that is beyond the scope of this paper", after giving a few good principles

"It is considered bad form to insert a hyphen unless at least two letters
precede it and three follow it; furthermore the syllable following a hyphen
shouldn’t have a silent ‘e’, so we do not admit a hyphenation like ‘sylla-ble’.
Smooth reading also means that the word fragment preceding a hyphen should be
long enough that it can be pronounced correctly, before the reader sees the
completion of the word on the next line; thus, a hyphenation like ‘pro-cess’
would be disturbing. This pronunciation rule accounts for the fact that the
second-last word of Figure 1 does not admit the potential hyphenation
‘fa-vorite’, since the fragment ‘fa-’ might well be the beginning of ‘fa-ther’
which is pronounced quite differently."

And despite an hour of googling, I can't find any useful references to the
selection of hyphenation points in words (to provide the 'break points' Knuth's
algorithm needs as its starting point).

And from  it seems I'm not the only person to have discovered this curious
lack.

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