On 23 October 2010 16:20, John Was <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > Getting back to TeX-related matters, the hyphenation patterns available in > XeTeX (even to 'plain' users like myself) are an enormous help, even if I > disagree with the English at frequent points > [...] >
Phil Taylor, Graham Toal, and I were involved in making the British English hyphenation patterns for TeX. They were based on a really good tape of UK-English-hyphenated words supplied to me by OUP themselves in 1996 (with full permissions to release the results to the TeX community). When you say you disagree with the English break points quite often, are you using the US or the UK patterns? They're very, very different. It's hard to get good public info on British English hyphenation. American dictionaries routinely include hyphenation points, but British one's routinely don't. The OUP tape was a godsend. Dominik
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