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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Hyphenation
Message-ID: <773@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 10:52:56 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 10:52:56 1985
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Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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[Not food]

In article <471@harvard.ARPA> kosower@harvard.ARPA (David A. Kosower) writes:
>There is, for 
>example, a large body of knowledge that has been built up over the years
>on the proper and elegant way to handle hyphenation automatically
>in English.  There are a variety of algorithms and methods that
>text formatters use.

Yes, and none of them are any good.  Have you seen the things those
algorithms do?  The only successful hyphenation algorithm is to look
the word up in a dictionary.

There are probably more and better on-line dictionaries available for
English than for any other language.  This is an issue that must be
addressed.

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108