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From: sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: Hyphenation
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Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 09:26:52 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  9 09:26:52 1985
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In article <773@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>algorithms do?  The only successful hyphenation algorithm is to look
>the word up in a dictionary.
>
And sometimes not even that is foolproof. I can't speak for English,
but I could give you examples from Swedish on words whose correct hyphenation
is different depending on their meaning. I would say the only sure
way to get a correct hyphenation is to have it interactive. Such things
are above the competence of a computer.