Re: NEW German Hyphenation

[Jeffrey Howard Kingston]

Lout uses the same method of doing hyphenation as TeX does.  This is based
on a large file of patterns.  You can see some examples of these files,
including one for German, in Lout library directory LOUTLIB/data.

If anyone is unhappy with the German hyphenation file and wants to send
me an authoritative replacement, I'd be happy to install it.

Jeff Kingston


On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Sverrir Jonsson wrote:

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> Is the NEW German Hyphenation support by LOUT?
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> German reformed (from: http://www.xs4all.nl/~talo/talo/de_rules.html)
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> Due to the changes in spelling, some former hyphenation principles can no
> longer be used. The language module German reformed of the Hyphenator has
> been optimized according to all spelling and hyphenation changes.
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> The most important changes are:
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> 1. The ligature st disappears. These consonants should be hyphenated as:
> kas-ten, Alabas-ter, illus-ter etc.
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> 2. Instead of hyphenation of ck, these dissyllables are kept unified, e.g.
> Zu-cker, ba-cken, Zwi-ckau.
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> 3. The principle of consonant doubling disappears. The new spelling of
> Schiffahrt is Schifffahrt, however, the Hyphenator does detect old spelling
> variants.
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> 4. The eindeutschende principles of hyphenation is introduced. This rule
> affects compound words which are now treated as individual elements:
> en-ei-nan-der, ?ber-ei-nan-der, etc.
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> 5. Greek and Roman prefixes are now hyphenated in a different manner:
> Ob-edi-enza becomes O-be-di-enz, Syn-od becomes Sy-nod and syn-onym becomes
> sy-nonym, etc.
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