Ruud, László would be the one to answer that. The original program that was used to generate hyphenation pattern files is PATGEN. If I recall correctly, he has a modified version that handles spelling modifications. How extensive is the list of modified words in Dutch?
In the past, the only way TeX was able to handle re-spelling hyphenations was for the author to include specific "discretionary hyphens" in the text. It could not be done automatically. Does the 1995 list provide for re-spelling? Peter r.j.baars wrote: > Peter, > > Thanks for the info. Seems rather complex to me. > > I would expect any of these programs to just accept an input list of > words with correct hyphenations in some format like: > botsautootjes: bots-au-too=to-tjes, generating all possibilites for the > word. > > Is there a format like this? In that case, i could rater easily generate > one ... > > By the way, ther is already an existing pattern file for 'old' (1995 > standard) Dutch. It's already used in Dutch OOO and Tex. > You can also find it at http://www.ntg.nl/spelling/ > > Ruud > > Peter B. West schreef: >> 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
