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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
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Subject: Re: Hyphenation code wanted
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Date: 28 Sep 89 01:30:10 GMT
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From article <1989Sep27.235236.22920@agate.berkeley.edu>, by raymond@hilbert.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen):
" ...
" If you're after perfection, look at appendix H of Knuth's TeXbook.
" ...  In most cases, the only error in the
" algorithm is that it misses hyphenation points.  It rarely places a
" hyphen where there shouldn't be one.

I'll give an algorithm that is even more perfect than this: Don't
hyphenate.  Then you _never_ place a hyphen where there shouldn't
be one.

To put the matter more straightforwardly, TeX's hyphenation
misses perfection by a considerable margin, since it misses
many good hyphenation points.

			Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu