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From: geyer@galton.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX: Hyphenation Problem
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.164316.16358@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 16:43:16 GMT
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In article <1991Jun19.135807.3082@fys.ruu.nl> spit@fys.ruu.nl
(Werenfried Spit) writes:

> 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.

That is because TeX does the Right Thing.  It is not correct to further
hyphenate words already containing a hyphen, unless nothing else can be
done.  Generally a copyeditor can avoid the troublesome hyphen by
rearranging a word or two somewhere in the paragraph.

TeX is for typesetting of the highest quality.  It can't do what you
want without compromising that quality.



Charles Geyer
Department of Statistics
University of Chicago
geyer@galton.uchicago.edu