Frank Liang's Patgen algorithms allow for ranking of hyphenation points, if I recall correctly, but that information is thrown away by TeX.
Dominik On 24 October 2010 09:45, John Was <john....@ntlworld.com> wrote: > I'm afraid the hyphenation rot had set in well before 1996. Any > publisher that can list bio|graph|ic|al and biog|raphy in adjacent entries > to its published dictionary of hyphenation points (The Oxford Colour > Spelling Dictionary) clearly needs to be treated with caution on such > matters! (The second two in 'biographical' are marked as less preferable, > and I used to dream of a system which would allow ranking of hyphenation > points, though it's a pretty immense task; the solitary one in biography' is > surely unacceptable.) > > The old conventions as delineated in the latest editions of Hart were much > safer, allowing much less less leeway for inflexional breaks and for the > 'feel' of how words are pronounced nowadays (or however they would like to > express it) and sticking to a finite number of quite easily grasped rules > that had essentially been in place since the inception of type and (in view > of the prevalence of classical learning at that time) are recognizable > adaptations of Latin/Greek rules (essentially: take over a single consonant, > split a group of consonants, though it isn't that straightforward of > course). > > John > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Dominik Wujastyk <wujas...@gmail.com> > *To:* Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex@tug.org> > *Sent:* 23 October 2010 17:51 > *Subject:* Re: [XeTeX] (Xe)LaTeX output in a non-(Xe)LaTeX scholarly > community > > On 23 October 2010 16:20, John Was <john....@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > [...] >> > Getting back to TeX-related matters, the hyphenation patterns available in >> XeTeX (even to 'plain' users like myself) are an enormous help, even if I >> disagree with the English at frequent points >> > [...] >> > > Phil Taylor, Graham Toal, and I were involved in making the British English > hyphenation patterns for TeX. They were based on a really good tape of > UK-English-hyphenated words supplied to me by OUP themselves in 1996 (with > full permissions to release the results to the TeX community). When you say > you disagree with the English break points quite often, are you using the US > or the UK patterns? They're very, very different. > > It's hard to get good public info on British English hyphenation. American > dictionaries routinely include hyphenation points, but British one's > routinely don't. The OUP tape was a godsend. > > Dominik > > ------------------------------ > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > >
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