>Well, although the patterns are now "in the cloud", they are accessible
>only to Dominik & I, and neither of us will live forever, so it seemed
>vital to both of us that they be made accessible to (at least some
>members) of the wider (and younger) community.
I couldn’t agree
Dear Dominik,
>The preface says, "Finally, the
> word-division recommendations follow the tried-and-tested Oxford system."
> It also says that it was, "prepared in consultation with the Society for
> Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP)."
Thanks for
Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
[...]
The breaks made by the British TeX patterns normally agree
with The Oxford Minidictionary of
Spelling and Word-Division (1990). What I have now
I routinely use the British English hyphenation patterns. These are based
on tapes of word-breaks provided by OUP many years ago that were run
through Liang's Patgen.
An author recently complained about a number of breaks he didn't like. The
author didn't tell me his authority, which is
