Timeline for How to add global hyphenation rules?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:35 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://tex.stackexchange.com/ with https://tex.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Jul 16, 2015 at 9:35 | comment | added | Jost | ushyphex.tex is included in the package hyphenex which can be found on ctan: hypenex. | |
| Sep 12, 2011 at 8:58 | comment | added | Stephen | @Barbara-Beeton (and @ Mico): balaclava is hyphenated bal-a-cla-va according to the online edition of Merriam-Webster, but ba-la-clava according to the 1989 printed fourth edition of Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, p. 77. But which one is correct UK-English? (If there is a difference to US-English here: Which one is correct US-English?) Just posted this as question at english.stackexchange.com/q/41545/12903 | |
| Sep 10, 2011 at 19:52 | comment | added | Mico | @mhp and Stephen: Glad you've found the more up-to-date version of the UK hyphenation exception list. Well, I did suspect that the hyphenation rules between the US and UK forms of English weren't perfectly identical; I suppose what matters in the end, from a pragmatic point of view, is if you're better with or without loading a US-English-centric hyphenation exception list. If you do load it, it may be worth going through it once to spot for obvious differences. One thing I've noticed from the US file is that it catches of lot of hyphenation points that TeX otherwise misses completely. :-) | |
| Sep 10, 2011 at 19:31 | comment | added | mhp | @Stephen: The file containing the TeX hyphenation patterns for UK English is no longer named ukhyphen.tex. It has been renamed to hyph-en-gb.tex in 2008. Note that “determined” is still hyphenated as “de-term-ined”. This seems to be bug. | |
| Sep 10, 2011 at 18:35 | comment | added | Stephen | @mhp Thanks mhp for this language regarded question. Then I'm back at the search for ukhyphex.tex (or by any another name). Any suggestions? Or should I add another question for a set of UK-hyphenation rules? | |
| Sep 10, 2011 at 18:30 | vote | accept | Stephen | ||
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| Sep 10, 2011 at 17:23 | comment | added | mhp | @Mico: In fact, they do and the difference is not too small. Try, for instance, \showhyphens{analysis} or \showhyphens{database}. | |
| Sep 9, 2011 at 18:20 | comment | added | Mico | Stephen: I too hope that somebody can answer our question whether US-English and UK-English hyphenation rules differ or not. | |
| Sep 9, 2011 at 18:07 | comment | added | Stephen | Unfortunately, ushyphex.tex is not included in the most recent version of my distribution. ukhyphen.tex is Revision 2.0 1996/09/10 15:04:04 ucgadkw. Well, I will use myhyph.sty and manually install and include ushyphex.tex, but now I am as curiouse as Mico: Are there any differences between US- and UK-hyphenation? Or can somebody confirm that there are none? | |
| Sep 8, 2011 at 21:05 | comment | added | Mico | A comment on my own answer: I realize that the OP's question refers to UK-English rather than to US-English hyphenation patterns. Hopefully, though, the differences in hyphenation patterns between these two strands of the same language aren't too serious to make loading ushyphex.tex unusable for his purposes. Somebody correct me if my hope is unfounded! | |
| Sep 8, 2011 at 19:44 | history | edited | barbara beeton | CC BY-SA 3.0 | corrected the spelling of my name (mrs. beeton of household management fame, not cecil) |
| Sep 8, 2011 at 18:56 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 131 characters in body |
| Sep 8, 2011 at 18:49 | history | answered | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 |