AW: AW: [xep-support] French hyphenation bug ?

Jaques,

You find a short decription on this link (FOP has the same
hyphenation-patterns as RenderX).

http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.20.5/hyphenation.html

non-numeric characters represent characters in a sub-word to be evaluated

the period character (.) represents a word boundary, i.e. either the
beginning or ending of a word

numeric characters represent a scoring system for indicating the
acceptability of a hyphen in this location.
-Odd numbers represent an acceptable location for a hyphen, with higher
values overriding lower inhibiting values.
-Even numbers indicate an unacceptable location, with higher values
overriding lower values indicating an acceptable position.
-A value of zero (inhibiting) is implied when there is no number present. G

Generally patterns are constructed so that valuse greater than 4 are rare.
Due to a bug currently patterns with values of 8 and greater don't have an
effect, so don't wonder.

Here are some examples from the English patterns file:
Knuth (The TeXBook, Appendix H) uses the example hach4, which indicates that
it is extremely undesirable to place a hyphen after the substring "hach",
for example in the word "toothach-es".
.leg5e indicates that "leg-e", when it occurs at the beginning of a word, is
a very good place to place a hyphen, if one is needed. Words like "leg-end"
and "leg-er-de-main" fit this pattern.
 
rgrds

Kurt Spescha
Consor AG, CH-8006 Zürich
+41 (0)44 368 35 44
+41 (0)76 560 66 89
kurt.spescha@consor.ch

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Auftrag von Jacques Foucry
Gesendet: Montag, 22. Januar 2007 13:46
An: xep-support@renderx.com
Betreff: Re: AW: [xep-support] French hyphenation bug ?

Le Lun 22 janvier 2007 11:47, Kurt Spescha a écrit :

Kurt,

> Sometimes the rules in the hyphenation file (originally from TeX/LaTeX)
> may
> be incomplete. So you have to add a rule. The easiest way to see, if the
> hyphenation file works, is to add a rule with the whole word, as ex.
> 'pan5ther'. Looking at the french file it seems anyway that there is no
> rule
> for how to hyphen 'nthe' (an 'n' before a 'th').

I had a look to this file and... It's a little bit complicated. Do you
know an url with explaination about all the symbols (., 2, 5), etc ?

Thanks in advance,

Jacques

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