Publication details
Hyphenation in TeX - Quo Vadis
| Authors | |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 1995 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | TUGboat: The Communications of the TeX Users Group |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| web | journal PDF |
| Field | Computer hardware and software |
| Keywords | hyphenation; multilingual typesetting |
| Description | Significant progress has been made in the hyphenation ability of TeX since its first version in~1978. However, in practice, we still face problems in many languages such as Czech, German, Swedish etc.\ when trying to adopt local typesetting industry standards. In~this~paper we discuss problems of hyphenation in multilingual documents in general, we show how we've made Czech and Slovak hyphenation patterns and we describe our results achieved using the program PatGen for hyphenation pattern generation. We show that hyphenation of compound words may be partially solved even within the scope of TeX82. We discuss possible enhancements of the process of hyphenation pattern generation and describe features that might be reasonable to think about to be incorporated in OMEGA or another successor to TeX82. |