Re:Using hyphenation and justification on the web
by Someone on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @04:46PM
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A dictionary is insufficient for languages that use compound words such as German and Dutch. You also need some algorithm for taking apart such compound words.
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Re:Using hyphenation and justification on the web
by fortes on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @09:37PM
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Definitely -- but the algorithms are well-known here, right?
Re:Using hyphenation and justification on the web
by Someone on Saturday September 11, 2010 @12:26PM
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Read a Dutch newspaper for a while, and you will not make that claim anymore. I do not know how well LateX works here, but I would guess that it only inserts 'safe' hyphens, using a word list. Without a word list, there simply is no way to know whether e.g. 'verstoren' is 'ver-storen' (a verb meaning 'to disturb') or 'vers-toren (could be a tower to store fresh stuff in or to sing from, but AFAIK is not an existing word) 'verst-oren' (AFAIK a meaningless word) without understanding the semantics of a text.