[NTG-context] hyphenation question

2024-02-02 Thread Hans van der Meer via ntg-context
In the 18th century documents I am transcribing often words are abbreviated as for example voorschreeve becoming voors: In the transcription it is usual to write this as voors[chreeve] indicating to the reader how the abbreviation was interpreted. The problem then arises with hyphenation,

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation question

2008-06-26 Thread Alan Stone
For your information... http://www.talo.nl/talo/download/documents/Language_Book.pdf There's a whole chapter on hyphenation rules for the European languages. Best, Alan On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Olivier Guéry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember reading that in correct french typo we

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation question

2008-06-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Alan Stone wrote: For your information... http://www.talo.nl/talo/download/documents/Language_Book.pdf There's a whole chapter on hyphenation rules for the European languages. A magnificent reference! At least for Slovenian it's using the deprecated

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation question

2008-06-26 Thread Alan Stone
Oh well, publishing is one of the ways some people like to brag about the labels they stick to their name: http://www.talo.nl/talo/contact/index.html For their information then, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? ;O) Alan On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation question

2008-06-26 Thread Charles P. Schaum
Unfortunately, these chaps haven't read their Duden Band 1, Die Deutsche Rechtschreibung. I checked their examples against it and they are quite in error at times. That makes it notoriously difficult to figure out the proper from the improper. So they theoretically could have a good product and

[NTG-context] hyphenation question

2008-06-25 Thread Alan Stone
In a document where \mainlanguage[fr] some words weren't hyphenated correctly so I've put them in a hyphenation pattern \hyphenation{ ap-pa-ren-ce at-ten-dai-ent com-men-cent d'am-bi-tion d'in-flu-en-ce l'ap-pa-ren-ce } The only ones who still don't get hyphenated

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation question

2008-06-25 Thread Olivier Guéry
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a document where \mainlanguage[fr] some words weren't hyphenated correctly so I've put them in a hyphenation pattern \hyphenation{ ap-pa-ren-ce at-ten-dai-ent com-men-cent d'am-bi-tion

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation question

2008-06-25 Thread Alan Stone
Will comply. Thanks Olivier On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Olivier Guéry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a document where \mainlanguage[fr] some words weren't hyphenated correctly so I've put them in a hyphenation

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation question

2008-06-25 Thread Alan Stone
Hmmm... that means there are a * lot * more words to add to the hyphenation pattern declaration. How do you instruct (Con)TeX(t) to not hypenate before the last « syllable » ? Alan On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will comply. Thanks Olivier On Wed, Jun

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation question

2008-06-25 Thread Olivier Guéry
We realy need to work on a wiki page with all these french rules. Once created I could ask some real typographist to help us (I hop they do help us…). Having the Artur's Rules for spacing would be a good start point. Olivier. On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation question

2008-06-25 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Alan Stone wrote: In a document where \mainlanguage[fr] some words weren't hyphenated correctly so I've put them in a hyphenation pattern \hyphenation{ ap-pa-ren-ce at-ten-dai-ent com-men-cent d'am-bi-tion d'in-flu-en-ce l'ap-pa-ren-ce } The only