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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: New York Times and hyphenation
Message-ID: <1991May26.205830.5267@csrd.uiuc.edu>
Date: 26 May 91 20:58:30 GMT
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Organization: Univ of Illinois, Center for Supercomputing R&D, Urbana, IL
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Whatever text processor the New York Times uses
will occasionally produce words that do-
n't hyphenate correctly. If you catch my drift.

Time for TeX!

\spaceskip=3.3pt plus 1.2pt
\def\nt'{\discretionary{}{not}{n't}}

\setbox0\hbox{I'm perturbed seeing words that do}
\hsize\wd0 \parindent0pt
I'm perturbed seeing words that do\nt' hyphenate correctly\par

\setbox0\hbox{I'm perturbed seeing words that don't}
\hsize\wd0
I'm perturbed seeing words that do\nt' hyphenate correctly\par

\end

Victor.