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From: jeffrey@cs.chalmers.se (Alan Jeffrey)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: New York Times and hyphenation
Message-ID: <4647@undis.cs.chalmers.se>
Date: 1 Jun 91 10:21:02 GMT
References: <1991May26.205830.5267@csrd.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Dept. of CS, Chalmers, Sweden
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In article <1991May26.205830.5267@csrd.uiuc.edu> eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
>
>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!

Except that I managed to get that hyphenation out of TeX once.  I'd
just upgraded LaTeX to the new font selection scheme, and I thought I
might as well include some new hyphenation tables while I was at it.
So I loaded in the Swedish, Spanish and French hyphenation tables
(with the necessary incantations to \language) and all was fine and
well.  Well, all was fine and well until I spotted the word `do- 
n't' in a document...  Much searching later I found:

   % The FPlain TeX hyphenation tables [NOT TO BE CHANGED IN ANY WAY!]
   \lccode`\'= 39

So now our localinit.tex includes the lines

   \input fhyph
   \lccode`\'=0

So maybe the NYT is using TeX...

Alan.
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Alan Jeffrey         Tel: +46 31 72 10 98         jeffrey@cs.chalmers.se
Department of Computer Sciences, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden