On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008, Németh László wrote:

> On the practical usage of the new extension: see README.compound in
> the source distribution. More documentation and development tools for
> the extended hyphenation patterns are planned.

Hi Laci,

what are your plans for writing those tools? I'm only asking because I 
wonder if it makes sense to make patgen work here or if those tools would 
replace patgen. patgen asks for values hyph_start, hyph_finish and several 
others which I don't know "correct" values for and I didn't find examples 
for German.

Here's my understanding of what needs to be done to improve German 
hyphenation. Please correct me if this is wrong:

1. Build a list of compound words that have hyphenation points only between 
their compound parts.

2. Build a list of non-compounds with hyphenation points (as it currently 
needs to be done to generate the patterns)

3. Build the patterns for both of the lists and prepare them with 
substrings.pl.

4. Put the compound patterns, then a line with the string "NEXTLEVEL", then 
the non-compounds patterns all in one file.

Is this correct? How big is the risk that the new compound patterns break 
some of the old non-compound hyphenations that already work correctly?

Regards
 Daniel

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http://www.danielnaber.de

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