From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Hyphenation patterns
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 08:57:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <61C3E342-5A9D-4279-9015-AB1A86522C4A@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8dcddc78-c2f3-e798-03f2-a9183ce944b6@mailbox.org>
> On 9 Oct 2020, at 08:52, Denis Maier <denismaier@mailbox.org> wrote:
>
> Am 08.10.2020 um 19:05 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:
>> \starttext
>>
>> {EN: \en\hyphenatedcoloredword{applicable}}
>>
>> {DE: \de\hyphenatedcoloredword{applicable}}
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
> Wow, that's super helpful. The English pattern seems to be "ap-plic-a-ble"
> According to Meriam-Webster it should just be "ap·pli·ca·ble".
>
> {EN: \en\hyphenatedcoloredword{obligate}} gives me "ob-lig-ate"
> According to Meriam-Webster it should be "ob·li·gate".
>
> I've had a look at the files mentioned by Tomáš, but as these are not just wordlists I can not really tell what is happening.
>
> So, is that a bug?
Not really. hyphenation patterns are a bit like applying JPEG compression to
a dictionary. It makes the data size smaller by recognising patterns while
ignoring outliers.
Occasional errors are to be expected, which is why \hyphenation exists.
Best wishes,
Taco
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-09 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-08 15:41 Denis Maier
2020-10-08 16:20 ` Tomas Hala
2020-10-08 17:05 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-10-09 6:52 ` Denis Maier
2020-10-09 6:57 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2020-10-09 7:01 ` Denis Maier
2020-10-09 12:48 ` Hans Hagen
2020-10-09 12:59 ` Denis Maier
2020-10-09 8:15 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-10-09 8:59 ` Hans Hagen
2021-04-09 21:57 ` Arthur Rosendahl
2020-10-09 8:54 ` Hans Hagen
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2010-05-23 23:22 hyphenation patterns Rogutės Sparnuotos
2010-05-23 21:38 ` Mojca Miklavec
[not found] ` <4BF9AE8A.6040405@gmail.com>
2010-05-24 0:16 ` Mojca Miklavec
2010-05-24 8:17 ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-24 18:52 ` rogutes
2010-05-24 14:50 ` luigi scarso
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