Mogens Lemvig Hansen wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> I am in the process of publishing a new hymnal for the Danish church in Vancouver
>(http://users.uniserve.com/~mlhansen/hymnal.html), so I too have had to figure out
>how to hyphenate in English. Here is what I came up with:
>
> The general rule is that a hyphen may not change the pronounciation of the previous
>syllabus. This rule means that a syllabus often begin with a vowel - that's unusual
>in Danish (your address is Danish, are you?)
>
> TeX's hyphenation algorith is pretty good. Use it interactively as follows:
> tex
> ** \relax
> *\showhyphens{one or more words in English}
> ...
> \end
> If you need to repeat the \showhyphens part many times, you can \let\sh\showhyphens
>and use \sh{one or more words} instead.
>
> A good dictionary indicates hy-phen-a-tion. (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
>to name one.)
>
Thank you for your kind reply, which led me to see if you also get hyphenations on a
word lookup in the on-line edition of The Webster Dictionary,
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary. You do :-). The TeX hyphenation algorithm
will not always succeed, which was the case as I tried two words - nasty and nappy -
used in Thomas Ravenscroft's 'Ale and Tobacco'.
Regards
--
Christian Mondrup, Computer Programmer
Scandiatransplant, Skejby Hospital, University Hospital of Aarhus
Brendstrupgaardsvej, DK 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
Phone: +45 89 49 53 01, Telefax: +45 89 49 60 07
