vankatum

npm install vankatum

import { hyphenateText } from "vankatum";

element.textContent = hyphenateText("Հայերենի տողադարձը");

hyphenateText puts invisible soft hyphens at every allowed break; the browser shows a hyphen only where a line wraps. Run it once on the server or at build time, and leave CSS hyphens at manual: the browsers' own Armenian hyphenation is the old pattern set or none at all.

1. Download vankatum-hy.oxt and open it (or Tools > Extensions > Add), then restart LibreOffice.
2. Mark the text as Armenian: Format > Character > Font > Language > Armenian.
3. Turn hyphenation on: Format > Paragraph > Text Flow > Hyphenation > Automatically.

The written ը appears at the break where the rules require it (գը-րել). Two limits: a word with և before a vowel is not broken at that point, and a name like Ստեփան can come out as Ըս-տեփան, because LibreOffice lowercases words before hyphenating.

1. Quit InDesign.
2. Open Terminal and run:

curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lobotomoe/vankatum/main/install/indesign/macos.sh
sudo bash macos.sh

3. Start InDesign and set Character > Language to Armenian (Armenia).

InDesign has no Armenian. The script adds it to InDesign's Hunspell plugin: it keeps a copy of Adobe's original plugin, adds the language and signs the plugin again locally, because with Adobe's signature broken InDesign stops hyphenating every language. An InDesign update removes Armenian; run the script again after one.

To restore Adobe's original plugin:

sudo bash macos.sh --uninstall

Save hyph-hy.tex next to your document as hyph-hy-vankatum.tex (a different name, so TeX does not load the old file from your distribution):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[armenian]{babel}
\babelprovide[import, hyphenrules=+]{armenian}
\begingroup
  \language=\csname l@armenian\endcsname
  \input hyph-hy-vankatum.tex
\endgroup
\babelhyphenmins[armenian]{1}{2}
\babelfont{rm}{Noto Sans Armenian}
\begin{document}
կանգնել աշխատանք բուրժուական
\end{document}

Any font with Armenian letters works. TeX patterns keep the letters as they are, so there is no ը at the break. XeLaTeX and pdfLaTeX load patterns only when the format is built, so this recipe is for LuaLaTeX.

These programs do not let you add a hyphenation dictionary, so there is no way to give them Armenian hyphenation.