Thanks everybody very much for the explanations. — As I am Swiss, these matters with ß were never correctly understood and my knowledge about hyphenation is old…
Thank you Thomas for pointing me to the Duden-rules. I will check-out the same issue about ck and k-k … Kind regards Willi > On 16 Mar 2022, at 17:29, Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context > <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 05:17:46PM +0100, Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context > wrote: >> So Eiwei-ßes may in fact be correct... But I assume that Arthur has some >> authoritative answer to this question. > > I’ll refer to the German hyphenation pattern list as an authority > (https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/trennmuster) :-) But I do > believe that you, Thomas, are right and that Eiwei-ßes is correct (while > Ei-weißes is much better anyway). It is in fact logical: ‘ß’ in the new > spelling means that the preceding sound is long, hence it has to be > spelt that way always, not “analysed” as ‘ss’. If you were to hyphenate > Straße as Stras-se, it would indicate a different pronunciation. > > Best, > > Arthur > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
