Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:35405 comp.sources.wanted:8864 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ames!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Hyphenation code wanted Message-ID: <4949@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 28 Sep 89 01:30:10 GMT References: <1989Sep27.235236.22920@agate.berkeley.edu> Distribution: na Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 16 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