Thank you very much! I hope for a fruitful communication with the people at OUP.
Sincerely, Dominik Wujastyk -- Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk> , Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity , Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/> , University of Alberta, Canada . South Asia at the U of A: sas.ualberta.ca On 4 April 2018 at 10:54, Chair <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Professor Dominik Wujastyk > > Thank you for your message. The SfEP is not a co-author if the book you > mention, but I forwarded your enquiry to one of my contacts in senior > management at OUP and she will sent it on to somebody better able to help > you. > > Best wishes > > Sabine Citron > > Sabine Citron > Chair > Society for Editors and Proofreaders > Apsley House > 176 Upper Richmond Road > <https://maps.google.com/?q=176+Upper+Richmond+Road+London%C2%A0SW15+2SH&entry=gmail&source=g> > London SW15 2SH > <https://maps.google.com/?q=176+Upper+Richmond+Road+London%C2%A0SW15+2SH&entry=gmail&source=g> > www.sfep.org.uk > > On 4 April 2018 at 17:32, Dominik Wujastyk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Prof. Citron, >> >> I am writing to you as Chair of the SfEP, because the SfEP is named as a >> main contributor to the *New Oxford Spelling Dictionary *(2005, ISBN >> 978-0-19-956999-1). >> >> In the 1991, as a member of the UK TeX Users Group, I collaborated with >> colleagues in developing a set of word-division rules specifically for >> British English, for use with the TeX typesetting software. This software >> is widely used, especially by authors and typesetters dealing with complex >> documents. >> >> The word-division rules were based on a list of about 150,000 hyphenated >> words that was kindly shared with us by Andrew Rosenheim, then Director of >> OUP's Electronic Publishing department, and Ruth Glynn, who also worked in >> the same department. The word division broadly mirrored those published in >> Robert Allen's *Minidictionary of Spelling and Word Division *(1986 and >> later eds.). >> >> The UK TeX Users Group undertook not to share the original list of OUP's >> hyphenated words, but only the compiled, machine-readable code used >> internally by TeX. The results were of great satisfaction to many British >> authors and typesetters, and I believe produced goodwill on all sides. >> >> I recently had the opportunity to study the *New Oxford Spelling >> Dictionary*, and I see that many word-division points are different from >> those published in the Allen *Minidictionary*, and also those given by >> the OUP-derived TeX hyphenation algorithm. Evidently, usage has evolved in >> the last two or three decades, as one could expect. >> >> The TeX community is now interested in updating TeX's British hyphenation >> patterns to match those in the New Oxford Spelling Dictionary. We would >> like to contact someone at OUP who has the authority to discuss this matter >> with us, and to offer a copyright release if it is deemed appropriate. >> >> Can you help to put us in touch with the appropriate person? >> >> With best wishes, >> Dominik Wujastyk >> >> and >> Dr Phil Taylor (UK TeX Users Group custodian of the TeX British >> Hyphenation project) >> >> >> -- >> Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk> >> , >> >> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity >> , >> >> Department of History and Classics >> <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/> >> , >> University of Alberta, Canada >> . >> >> South Asia at the U of A: >> >> sas.ualberta.ca >> >> >> >
