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. ________________________________________________________________________ Father Pierre FRANÇOIS, Ph.D. (http://www.romanliturgy.org) Bosmanslei 16 B-2018 Antwerpen (Belgium) tel. +32 3 237 63 96 gsm +32 474 719 131 ________________________________________________________________________ Ir Pierre François, Ph.D. Bosmanslei 16 B-2018 Antwerpen (Belgium) tel. +32 3 237 63 96 _______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users

