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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: Hy-phen-a-tion dic-tion-ary
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Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 12:25:53 EDT
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Date:  9 Jun 1987 10:31-EDT 
From: Tom.Lane@zog.cs.cmu.edu

>Yep, storing the dictionary is the heart of the problem.  There is a
>guy at Stanford who did his thesis on the subject. [...]
>I'd wager that there is available software to demonstrate
>his thesis.

If I'm not mistaken, the guy was one of Knuth's students, and his
results are implemented in TeX.  If you don't want to use TeX, you
could still borrow its hyphenation algorithms and dictionary; they're
public domain as I understand it.

				tom lane
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