- From: Vincent QUINT <Vincent.Quint@imag.fr>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:03:33 +0200
- To: lee@sq.com
- cc: www-html@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
> TeX's hypenation is very very good because it very rarely hyphenates words. > It goes to a _lot_ of trouble to avoid hyphenation. > > When it does hyphenate words, it actually does so very very badly. > More precisely, usually the hyphenation is acceptable, but often not. TeX's hyphenation is based on hyphenation patterns extracted from hyphenation dictionaries. The result simply depends on these hyphenation dictionaries. With a good dictionary, you get good results. The main advantage is that it uses very small pattern files and it is well suited to multilingual documents, as it does not depend on any language-specific algorithm. As an example, it uses different pattern files for British English and American English. Vincent. ------------------------------------------------------- Vincent Quint INRIA Rhone-Alpes W3C/INRIA ZIRST e-mail: Vincent.Quint@w3.org 655 avenue de l'Europe Tel.: +33 4 76 61 53 62 38330 Montbonnot St Martin Fax: +33 4 76 61 52 07 France
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