Akhilesh
Regardless of what happens underneath (dictionary lookup or algorithm), the
final result for English hyphenation should follow dictionary hyphenation
not pronunciation. (This is true in every publication style guide I've come
across).
To use your example, 'e-di-to-"rin"-chief' would be the incorrect
hyphenation. (It is less readable to English readers if you use
non-standard hyphenation.) If MuseScore marked it as incorrect, that would
be okay. (Even though it is a hyphenation mistake rather than a spelling
mistake).
Note: Hyphenation in other languages (like French and Spanish) usually
follows pronunciation. Hyphenation for other languages can often be
described with less than 30 rules. It is just English that doesn't have a
clear set of rules. As a result, most English speakers make frequent
hyphenation mistakes (unless they are editors by training).
If it is helpful I can post hyphenation rules for several other languages.
It might take me a week or two.
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David Bolton
On Mar 20, 2016 7:30 AM, "akhilesh" <akhileshs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello lasconic, hello all,
>
> I'm proposing to work on text utilities for GSoC. I have a draft of the
> idea, but I have a few things that I'm not able to wrap my head around.
>
> 1) *Spell checking hyphenated words:* On the GSoC 2014 page
> (
> https://musescore.org/en/developers-handbook/google-summer-code/ideas-2014#Proofing-tools-for-lyrics%3A-spellcheck-and-hyphenation
> )
> I came across:
>
> "Spell checking lyrics also takes some work beyond simply hooking up a
> spellchecker. For example "ed-i-tor-in-chief" should pass spellcheck as
> "editor-in-chief". You have to preserve some hyphens and drop others before
> the spellchecker recognizes the word"
>
> *QUESTION* is: wouldn't hyphens in the original word of a hyphenated word
> confuse the hyphens that are induced due to syllabification? And hence, my
> suggestion is we should treat all originally hyphenated words as
> non-hyphenated in musescore.
>
> *EXAMPLE:* In the original word 'editor-in-chief', there's a hyphen "r-in"
> but the user doesn't split the syllable that way in the lyrics (say his
> lyrics are: e-di-to-"rin"-chief.
> *
> PROBLEM*: The spell checker would say the hyphen between "r-in" should be
> present, but the user would say he wanted "rin" to be sung at as single
> note, and making it "r-in" would confuse him into thinking that they had to
> be sung at separate notes.
>
> So can the spell checker forgive missing hyphens in the original word?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 2) *Hyphenation*:
>
> I was thinking of a hyphenation model where the user starts typing lyrics
> from under a particular note (This can be the start note or any other note)
> and hyphenation happens on the fly, where next syllables keep spilling over
> to next notes.
>
> OR
>
> Another model would be where where the user enters the entire lyrics at
> once, and the hyphenation happens after the entire lyrics have been
> entered,
> and each syllable is aligned with one note, starting from the first note.
>
> *QUESTION*: Which one of the above would be preferred as an implementation
> model? I can think of merits to both.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 3) *Plugin*:
>
> Should the spell checker and hyphenator be implemented as separate plugins?
> (I am not sure how to decide which is a better paradigm, hence)
>
> It'd be great if you could help me out with these queries, after which I'd
> like to have your advice on the implementation model I have in mind based
> on
> your inputs to the above.
>
> Thanks,
> Akhilesh
>
>
>
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