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From: robin@lsl.co.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,aus.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX: Hyphenation Problem
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.095110.781@lsl.co.uk>
Date: 18 Jun 91 09:51:09 GMT
References: <1991Jun13.070121.1906@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> <1991Jun14.143616.776@lsl.co.uk> <1991Jun14.191028.14533@fys.ruu.nl>
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In article <1991Jun14.191028.14533@fys.ruu.nl>, spit@fys.ruu.nl (Werenfried Spit) writes:
> In <1991Jun14.143616.776@lsl.co.uk> robin@lsl.co.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
> 
>>This is because of the jolly rules of `proper' typesetting - don't (they
>>say) hyphenate a word that's already been explicitly hyphenated.
> Might be, but you will have difficulties with german 
> and dutch (and probably a lot more languages) which
> contain too many of these words to apply this rule.

Oh dearie me - I stand corrected.  I just don't know enough German, 
obviously, and my Dutch is next to non-existent (there are too many good 
speakers of English in Holland for the incentive to be strong enough).

Am I to understand that this is another instance in which TeX is 
not-quite-perfect for the non English-speaking world?  Oh woe!
-- 
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