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From: spit@fys.ruu.nl (Werenfried Spit)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX: Hyphenation Problem
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.135807.3082@fys.ruu.nl>
Date: 19 Jun 91 13:58:07 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> <GEOFFO.91Jun19171522@crimson.spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au>
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In <GEOFFO.91Jun19171522@crimson.spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au> geoffo@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Geoff Oakley) writes:

>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.

True, but the problem remains, as TeX (without special tricks) will
not hypnhenate words containing an explicit hyphen. Even if the patterns
tell clearly how each of the constituing members could be hyphenated.