Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!metro!usage.csd.unsw.oz.au!usage!geoffo From: geoffo@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Geoff Oakley) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,aus.tex Subject: Re: LaTeX: Hyphenation Problem Message-ID: Date: 19 Jun 91 07:15:22 GMT References: <1991Jun13.070121.1906@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> <1991Jun14.143616.776@lsl.co.uk> <1991Jun14.191028.14533@fys.ruu.nl> <1991Jun18.095110.781@lsl.co.uk> Sender: news@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au Followup-To: comp.text.tex Organization: none Lines: 28 In-reply-to: robin@lsl.co.uk's message of 18 Jun 91 09:51:09 GMT In article <1991Jun18.095110.781@lsl.co.uk> robin@lsl.co.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes: 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! Don't get too depressed just yet. Remember that non-English `versions' of TeX have their own, different hyphenation tables. And that with TeX 3.0 there is (fairly) full support for multi-lingual TeX. Remember also the impressive Japanese and Arabic (and no doubt other) versions that exist. -- geoffo@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au Geoff Oakley: CS & E, UNSW, PO Box 1, Kensington, NSW 2033, Australia Phone: +61 2 697 4043 Fax: +61 2 313 7987