Re: Error in italian.lh (and correction)

[Jeff Kingston]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 21:40:21 +0400, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
  > 
  > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 19:11:50 +0200, Giovanni Salmeri wrote:
  > 
  > > Presently lout does not hyphenate italian words that contain an
  > > apostroph (this is sometimes annoying). So I have modified with a
  > > guesswork the file italian.lh this way:
  > > 
  > > @!$%^&*()_-+=~`{[}]:;|<,.>?/0123456789
  > > '
  > > aA
  > > 
  > > Now it seems to work fine. But I am not sure whether what I have done is
  > > really correct (I ignore how a .lh file works). Can anybody confirm?
  > 
  > Yes, this seems to be correct.  The first character class is
  > "non-letters" and since the apostroph is part of words (and
  > hyphenation rules mention it actually), it should be in a
  > word-constituent class.
  > 
  > SY, Uwe
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I've made this change to italian.lh for the next release.

Jeff Kingston