Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site enea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!seismo!mcvax!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: Hyphenation Message-ID: <968@enea.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 09:26:52 EST Article-I.D.: enea.968 Posted: Sat Nov 9 09:26:52 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 03:59:20 EST References: <471@harvard.ARPA> <773@mmintl.UUCP> Reply-To: sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) Distribution: net Organization: Enea Data, Sweden Lines: 10 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.