Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka 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 Article-I.D.: mmintl.773 Posted: Tue Nov 5 10:52:56 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 08:24:37 EST References: <471@harvard.ARPA> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Distribution: net Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 19 [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