r.j.baars wrote:
> Most of the time, hyphenation is 'just' inserting a dash. But not always.
> 
> For Dutch breaking botsautootje is correct like bots-autootje and 
> botsauto-tje, the latter one by modificating the word.
> The same happens in words like geïnd, which should be
> hyphenated(presented) as ge-ind.
> 
> I can think of two ways to handle these situations :
> 1) stopping the hyphenations at these locations (simple but not elegant)
> 2) modifying the word during hyphenation, but keeping the 'normal' form
> for recovery while editing the text (elegant but difficult).
> 
> Is modification of a word while hyphenating it already supported in some
> way?
> If not, is it somwhere in the feature request list or planning?
> 
> Could anyone please inform me on this topic? I would like to know before
> investing effort in starting recalibration of the Dutch hyphenation,
> which could be necessary because rules for compounding have changed.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> R.J. Baars
> (member of opentaal.org)

Modification while hyphenation *is* already supported, notably in
Hungarian. László Németh will no doubt respond to you here. See hunspell
<http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/> and László's paper for TUGboat
<http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/tb87nemeth.pdf>.

I'm interested because I support a Java hyphenation module, HyFo
<http://defoe.sourceforge.net/hyfo/hyfo.html> which also supports
modification during hyphenation, and I need the definitions for Dutch,
preferably both new and previous versions. I would much appreciate
access to the hyphenation data you develop.

Peter West

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