Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihdev.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihdev!pdg From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: Hyphenation Message-ID: <390@ihdev.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 10:37:07 EST Article-I.D.: ihdev.390 Posted: Mon Nov 11 10:37:07 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:29:43 EST References: <471@harvard.ARPA> <773@mmintl.UUCP> <1861@watdcsu.UUCP> Reply-To: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (55224-P. D. Guthrie) Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 7 >Yes, some languages are quite easy to hyphenate. FinnAPL idiom >handbook includes a one-liner in APL that correctly hyphenates about >90% of Finnish words; a friend added a few more lines and got it up >to, what I estimate to be between 99.5 and 99.9%. > __ _ I once saw a complete text editor that was a one-liner in APL :-) Eight hundred or so symbols though.