Re: Features needed for high-end DTP apps
- From: Joaquín Cuenca Abela <cuenca pacaterie u-psud fr>
- To: Damon Chaplin <damon kendo fsnet co uk>
- Cc: Gernot Jander <gernot tpg com au>, Soeren Sandmann <sandmann daimi au dk>, gtk-i18n-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Features needed for high-end DTP apps
- Date: 24 Oct 2002 21:11:58 +0200
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 21:55, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 12:01, Gernot Jander wrote:
>
> The TexBook seems to say that German words no longer change their
> spelling. Is that true?
>
> "Before 1998, some ^{German} words changed their spelling
> when split between lines. For example, `backen' became `bak-ken'
> and `Bettuch' sometimes became `Bett-tuch'."
>
> Maybe the best thing to do in German is just to have a dictionary of
> specific words, i.e. no patterns.
Ouch. That will hurt. Remember than German has plenty of flexions for
a given word.
Btw, once I had an article about a hyphenation algorithm based on a
neural network, specially designed to german-like languages.
If you're interested I should be able to find it again.
Cheers,
--
Joaquín Cuenca Abela
cuenca pacaterie u-psud fr
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