My answer is the middle of your text:

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 14:02 -0500, Innocent Smith wrote:
> If you are working with English texts, after typing in the text you
> can run them through the Lyric Hyphenator
> (http://juiciobrennan.com/hyphenator/), then find & replace the
> hyphens thus inserted with "()" and then the spaces between words with
> "() " [followed by a space]. This is much faster than inserting the
> parentheses by hand.

There are some open source programs hyphenating as well, v.gr.
OpenOffice.org.

> A similar process can be used for Latin texts, although there is not
> to my knowledge so convenient a tool as the Lyric Hyphenator. I've
> done experiments using my own compiled word lists, which works
> decently so long as you have a good find and replace program that has
> a "whole words" option. Another solution might be to determine basic
> rules when a syllable is broken in Latin (for instance between two
> vowels [excepting dipthongs], between certain consonants, etc.) and
> use that to get a lot of the parentheses inserted.

Thank you for the tip. Latin texts are hyphenated quite in the same way
as Italian texts. 


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