" From: Dirk Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
" TeX's hyphenation method is clever but not infallible, and is strongly
" language dependent. For example, the first line of Psalm 42 in Latin
" is hyphenated by Plain TeX (U.S. English) as follows:
"
" \showhyphens{Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum}
"
" Si-cut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum
"
" The correct hyphenation is:
"
" Sic-ut cer-vus de-si-de-rat ad fon-tes a-qua-rum
"
" At least TeX got the hyphenation for 'ad' right :-)
"
" If despite this reply you still want to try to make hyphenation
" automatic, read Appendix H in the TeXbook and then go out and
" have a beer instead.
Actually, adding a hyphenation system for Latin (and Italian) is not
that difficult, since the rules are much simpler than for English.
In the given example, "sicut" is the only word which should be counted
as an exception.
But I agree that it would be better to have a beer, rather than trying
to devise an automatic hyphenation system.
.mau.
(darn... now I am whistling the bass part of Palestrina's mottetto. Help!)
